[ShadowAce]

Competent network apps synchronize local and server copies of data files. Windows Server does, so one would assume that anything claiming to be better than Windows would allow offline access to data and documents.

Of course, but we're talking apps, not data.

[js1138]

Of course, but we're talking apps, not data.

That would be even worse. I wouldn't get within ten feet of owning a computer that couldn't run without being connected to a network.

I grew up, so to speak, in a mainframe shop where everything ran under CICS. It makes some sense in a corporate environment, but otherwise it sucks.

Perhaps in twenty years when the internet is truely everwhere.