No more boxes to fill up the shed and no more manuals to prop up shelves and gather dust. Gone are the days of CD or DVD based software. They have also – just to further rub cloud based storage into our collective faces – been pushing software distribution to the cloud. To address this issue Apple have been pushing iCloud as THE place to store your documents. One of the major issues with this spreading of devices is the retention of documents and the sharing of files between them.

Most people these days have more than one computer, even if that “computer” is an iPhone. There are moves afoot that will affect how you are able to buy Office for your home computers and I hope to explain this further here.

This issue is a little more serious, and as it turns out more complicated than first thought. However, as it is too often the case, I got side tracked into the new costs facing Microsoft Office users. Editors Note: Originally this post was going to be a study of cloud services and how they work with the various desktop and iOS applications.

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