Microsoft dumps docs.com cloud file locker, sets December death-date Microsoft's decided that Docs.com has to die in December. Docs.com is a file-sharing site that allows users to post files in the various Microsoft Office formats to the web, where they can be viewed by anyone. That feature set will be rather familiar to users of SlideShare, the file-sharing site owned by LinkedIn. With …
Tell me again why you should rely on The Cloud as the preferred tool to create or store documents? Why the convenience it might offer outweighs the risk that your provider will wake up one morning and shut you down.
Stories like this, and Google's habit of killing off services, are what make me wary of relying on cloud services for anything critical.
<quote>Tell me again why you should rely on The Cloud as the preferred tool to create or store documents? Why the convenience it might offer outweighs the risk that your provider will wake up one morning and shut you down.</quote>
NOT if it is your cloud! (i.e YOU own it!)
YOU own it!
You think you own it, you own jack sh*t, as usual, there is a "license agreement" in place, which one party can alter the way it feels, discontinuing the service even if you are a paying customer and the service as such was profitable ...
Welcome to the beautiful world of banks, lawyers, shareholders, share prices and dividends.
1. ${technology} is the best and will replace all ${previous_technology} immediately! use it now! now! now! We won't support our cloud/dev ops/collaboration/document storage/cloud/cloud/enterprise/universal fabulon/share price/manager bonuses/developers/customers with ${previous_technology}
2. Devs switch from ${previous_technology} to ${technology}. Have to re-write everything, often at a considerable cost, and lose functionality their customers love because it turns out ${technology} doesn't functionally replace ${previous_technology}, but instead adds a bit and takes away a lot.
3. Microsoft issues statement on how well ${technology} is doing and how it's the strategic future. Customers notice that not much improvement is going into ${technology}.
4. Major security problem found with ${technology} that did not apply to ${previous_technology}.
5. 1 year passes.
6. previous_technology=${technology}
7. technology=new excretion from the depths
8. goto 1
In the early days of the internet, I didn't have a computer. Well, actually, my girlfriend smashed it, and they weren't as easy to replace as they are today (the computer, not the girlfriend). Anyway, I used the cloud (before it knew it was a cloud) site called Visto. It worked OK, and I even lauded its benefits on the Usenet.
Then one day, without warning, it died.
I didn't have a backup.
There are a few of them nowadays http://www.networkworld.com/article/2932962/cloud-storage/19-free-cloud-storage-options.html
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