The problems were short-lived, but widespread. Over at Hacker News — a news discussion site that tends to attract Silicon Valley’s most knowledgeable software developers — a long thread quickly filled up with dozens of crash reports. “My Chrome has been crashing every ten minutes for the last half hour,” wrote one poster.

This may be a first. Bad webpage coding can often cause a browser to crash, but yesterday’s crash looks like something different: widespread crashing kicked off by a web service designed to help drive your browser.

Think of it as the flip side of cloud computing. Google’s pitch has always been that its servers are easier to use and less error-prone than buggy desktop software. But the Sync problem shows that when Google goes down, it can not only keep you from getting your e-mail — it can knock desktop software such as a browser offline too.]]> google chrome cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:af7d71b2de15/ 2012-01-11T05:42:28+00:00 http://gadgets.itwriting.com/?p=834 guardiantech ces2012 cloudcomputing acer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:a14b59fcb3f8/ 2011-08-10T06:32:08+00:00 http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/08/there-will-be-no-files-in-the-cloud.html guardiantech dropbox cloudcomputing joshhalliday https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:7f351d2fb340/ 2011-06-16T15:57:26+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/technology/personaltech/16pogue.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 guardiantech charlesarthur chrome google cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:b7b21336adc6/ 2011-06-10T05:57:15+00:00 http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/enterprise/subscription-plans.aspx guardiantech microsoft office365 cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:57a5db8eb328/ 2011-06-07T05:49:20+00:00 http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-set-to-launch-office-365-on-june-28/ guardiantech
"The service is a full browser-based solution that incorporates webmail, collaboration and document management. The entry-level package, Office 365 for Small Businesses, provides Office Web Apps, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync online with an external website for $6 per user, per month. Larger businesses can take advantage of Office 365 for Enterprise. The package is $24 a user, per month and will include email, voicemail, enterprise social networking, instant messaging, web portals, extranets, voiceconferencing and videoconferencing.

"The Enterprise package also includes pay-as-you-go access to Office Professional Plus."

You have to have Office first. This isn't some price-reducing move by Microsoft.]]> charlesarthur microsoft windows cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:c2c70e1f209e/ 2011-06-07T05:49:03+00:00 http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-set-to-launch-office-365-on-june-28/?utm_campaign=twitterwp&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter guardiantech
"The service is a full browser-based solution that incorporates webmail, collaboration and document management. The entry-level package, Office 365 for Small Businesses, provides Office Web Apps, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync online with an external website for $6 per user, per month. Larger businesses can take advantage of Office 365 for Enterprise. The package is $24 a user, per month and will include email, voicemail, enterprise social networking, instant messaging, web portals, extranets, voiceconferencing and videoconferencing.

"The Enterprise package also includes pay-as-you-go access to Office Professional Plus."

You have to have Office first. This isn't some price-reducing move by Microsoft.]]> charlesarthur microsoft windows cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:eb19f1c8f4ae/ 2011-05-23T05:37:26+00:00 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/apple-best-bet-cloud-thing/ guardiantech "Mainstream users determine the future, and they have neither the time nor inclination to upload thousands of songs over a period of days in order to set up a music locker. And when they acquire new music, they don’t want to repeat a miniature version of that process each time."]]> charlesarthur apple music cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:adc577f7cb3e/ 2011-05-20T21:34:13+00:00 http://www.cio.com/article/682683/Why_We_Chose_Exchange_Online_Not_Google_Apps guardiantech
'Nothing was wrong with Google Apps,' says Newman. 'Gmail is a rich environment, and customer support was good. But we were not willing to replace Office with Google Docs, and the cost of having Google Apps and Office client was too much for us.'"

The interesting understory (if that's a word) possibly being that Microsoft had to cut its price to win the contract over Google. Hard otherwise to understand how it would be too expensive to have Google Apps and Office, and yet cheaper to have Sharepoint and Office.

Which, by the way, will integrate with the council-approved mobile phones: BlackBerry.. and iPhones.]]> google microsoft cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:46e9132ba9ea/ 2011-04-25T21:08:44+00:00 http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/20110425/seven-questions-for-rajen-sheth-who-wants-to-put-chrome-os-on-your-desktop/ guardiantech charlesarthur google cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:47a80eee8c6d/ 2011-04-22T21:52:42+00:00 http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-cloud-computing-business?srid=OHi guardiantech charlesarthur amazon cloudcomputing quora https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:c7d6225c092c/ 2011-04-19T06:24:27+00:00 http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229401751/first-look-microsoft-8217-s-office-365-will-shake-up-it.htm guardiantech
Interesting.]]> charlesarthur microsoft office cloudcomputing https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:44ddc7c88e24/