On 03/22/2013 11:53 AM, Temlakos wrote:
Years ago, when I took a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering
course,
our instructor talked hopefully, even dreamily, of a future in which all
applications, including word processors, would be back-end applications.
He even named Microsoft's project along this line: Microsoft
Back-office. As he told it, the back-end application would do all the
heavy lifting. It would create the file, save it to a directory with
your username and password, send you a printer-friendly page when
needed, and everything.
And, of course, it comes with the ultimate vendor lock-in: no way to
pirate software when it's never on your machine in the first place.