Cloud Computing Rocks

I’ve finally got the latest version of Ubuntu!  If you’re from another planet, it’s a version of Linux which has always shown promise as an alternative to Windoze.

I’ve had a couple of bashes at Ubuntu before, but dare I say it, big bro Nath is half as geeky as me has used it FAR more than I!  They’ve released 10.04 which I’ve just installed dual boot on my PC…  So with past experiences of it not being “quite right” for every day use, why do I think that Ubuntu is for me now?  Two words… cloud computing.

It dawned on me this week that I use virtually NO applications on my PC besides games.  EVERYTHING I do it “in the cloud”.  If you’re confused by that term, it basically refers to applications online. I mean… you have to have been living under a rock if you didn’t already know I’m a complete Google evangelist.  I host my moon.co.nz email with Google.  Why wouldn’t you?  Throw in 7GB of storage, some of the best spam filtering ever and the sweetest archiving and search system ever and I’m totally sold.  Chuck in Google calendar which will text me to remind me of appointments, Google Docs to manage my documents (bye bye MS Office) and suddenly it really DOESN’T matter what computer I’m using… everything I need is online now.  Scary, but true.

And now is the golden age of Social Media – my method of keeping up with the family is Facebook.  My method of keeping up professionally is Twitter – and Ubuntu seems to do an awesome job of keeping up with both with Social media apps install out of the box.

I love it… I wanna see how long it is before I actually need Windows again.

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