Wrong business direction for Microsoft: I have been a loyal Microsoft user for many, many years. My first PC in 1986 an on MS-DOS 2.0 and upgraded to Dos 4 soon thereafter. I upgraded to Windows 3.11 having played with a previous version of Windows that came with a copy of PageMaker that I had installed. When Windows 98 came out I was one of the first to upgrade, and again with XP. I am holding off on Vista, but for different reasons than everyone else.

I was a beta test for Office in the early days, and again for the 2003 version. I love the stuff. I also have purchased MapPoint and Project. I think that I could be considered an avowed MS consumer.

But I have taken a hard look at Office 2007 and I think that it is time to get off this very expensive train. I really just don't see the benefits for upgrading, and I am starting to shift a lot of my thinking to web possibilities. My concern in the past is not one of security in that I don't want someone looking at that, I think that is a small problem. My concern was having it online and then having that web site shut down. The work around has been right before me, but now I get it. I can save the file to the server's storage, and then save a back up here. Then, if I want, I can save it to another online storage vehicle such as Xdrive. I really think that this is the way that the future will go. I keep a 1gig USB flash drive, and I can easily see me getting a larger one in the future and using that as my primary storage vehicle. Then I can keep a computer at the house, another at the office, etc. We shall see.