Look at banking (Score 1)

>... Will it ever be possible to do away with desktop solutions like Outlook and Thunderbird? Given the nature of the internet, will it ever be possible to truly move to an 'online desktop'?

Look at banking: Where's most/all of your money, in your home, or in the bank? If we can trust financial institutions with almost all of our money, why can't we trust these service providers with our data? What we need is regulation.