Why Microsoft’s new Office 2013 license may send users to Google Docs

[Ron Obvious]

17. No "cloud" computing for me..

I've been involved in and with the personal computers since nearly their beginning and I'm damned if I'm going to go back to a terminal model or net-storage where I don't control 100% of all my code and data on my own damn computer. So no "cloud" in my house, thanks you very much Google, and no contracts with rent-seeking bastards either --sorry, Microsoft. OpenOffice or LibreOffice for me.

I worked for and supported MS for years and indeed still run Windows 7 because I haven't found anything nearly approaching Visual Studio as a development environment elsewhere, but philosophically, I wish I could sever the relationship completely. I prefer Thunderbird and Firefox to their MS counterparts and OpenOffice is more than adequate for what we do. It's really only Dev Studio and the massive investment in Windows and specific apps that keep me around.

Unity is an abomination, though, which is a damn shame because Ubuntu was the one distribution that could have had mass appeal beyond the usual Linux crowd, and that I could have taken seriously.