Look I think it’s time to move on. It’s not about you, it’s about me…(you haven’t grown, I have). I think we are just at different places in our lives, we want different things…

Breaking up is so hard to do, relationships are habits. Some are good, some are bad, they become the norm. But at some moment in time, you look at:

• where you have come from,
• where you are,
• and where you want to go,

It’s just time to start slowly packing things up to transition to your next life, holding off on booking that vacation, and perhaps not repainting the hall just yet.

This is kind of where the office is today when we think about Microsoft. A few months ago we need to replace one of our office computer. With Windows 7 imminent, but not yet launched, it was not as straightforward a decision as it usually is. We knew we’d have to upgrade with a disc that Dell, promised they would said, (we’ve heard that one before), but nonetheless, the new machine was needed. So we bought a Vista machine with a free upgrade eligability at some undefined time in the future.

So the new machine arrived and we starts transferring all this data from one machine to the other. Now, we are diligent backer-uppers. So we never worried about loosing data, it was just that to have large amounts of data locally stored, which then had to moved from the old machine to the new seemed, at that moment very outdated. Wasn’t the point of the internet to decentralize data? To store the data in between two computer rather than on one of them.

We also spend a lot of time moving data around. We have files on a server, that we individually make changes to, then save them, then someone else on the network can open them, make changes and so on…

falling in love again…

At this low ebb, google popped up with Google Voice, which we’ll talk more about in another post, but we love it. Absolutely, we are besotted once again. The google, world view seems to becoming more coherently into view with better grouping of what were seemingly disparate products.

Time spent within Google Voice, lead to us getting reaquainted with google docs. Though heavily stripped down versions of the Microsoft Office suite, the fact that are stored online, by definition all of a sudden seems immensely appealling. Having your voicemail a tab away just sweetens the deal even more.

So, as it stands, we are transitioning over to google docs, we already commited to google voice. What out Microsoft Outlook, your days may be numbered!

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