http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.bing.com You have GOT to be kidding.

They all went to North Korea.

Seriously, I see this as more of a factoid than a problem. Greedy capitalist pig that I am, I kinda like not getting mugged in parking lots and being able to see the road at night. YMMV.

Thank you! Why is it that corporations who want to keep the money they earned by selling products and services are evil and greedy, but the government wanting to take more and more of that money is perfectly fine? What makes government more entitled to that money than the person or entity that earned it? You can hate and bash MS or any company for thinking of offshoring jobs to save money, but what about rethinking our punitive tax policy?

Same way Offline Gmail works right now. It downloads a local copy to your PC and keeps it synced with the cloud while you're connected. When your connection's gone, you work as usual. Once you re-connect, everything is synced again in the background. It works well.

Google Gears pretty much takes care of the flaky connection problem. Keep a local cache, and sync everything when the Net connection comes back up.

I would love to see Google Docs incorporated into OOo. I've tried an OOo plugin before that was supposed to save to and open from Google Docs...don't remember the name of it, but it kinda sucked anyway. Some enterprising Google engineer could probably whip up a solution in their 20% time, but I'd really love to see it as an official project.

My sound didn't work at first. Then I realized it was picking up my onboard sound, so I pointed it to my sound card, and it worked. Oh wait, no it didn't...flash would play in Firefox, but with NO SOUND.

Sounds like a small issue, but part of the reason I went back to Windows as my primary desktop was that I got tired of hunting for solutions to all the here-and-there problems. Also, trying to explain to my wife and kids why something as basic as printing didn't work quite right, or why a certain app would crash, or whatever, got really old. I don't get that in Windows (running XP, btw). All jokes and cliches aside, Ubuntu wasn't cutting it on my desktop, XP was. I hate, but that's how it went for me.

That said, all my servers run Ubuntu. Wouldn't have it any other way. I'm not a MS apologist by any stretch, I just want my stuff to work.

THIS. I ran my own mail server for a while at work...thought it would be better to have a server I control. I got over that pretty quick when I realized all the work that goes into junk filtering. The log files were terrifying. I'm just as happy to let Google do the work for me, and for now, they're happy to do it. I can live with that.

Surrender now.

Yes, u can haz.

I didn't know they did that, but I don't see why they couldn't. With a client as big--and with as many special requirements--as the federal government, it would make total sense for Google to help the feds set up their own servers running Google apps. That would address security/privacy concerns and give the government access to all that Google goodness.

Microsoft should worry.