giant .pst files

The “Rush to the Cloud” - Not So Fast… « Shepherd’s Pi

You know what was the single factor that moved me to the cloud?

Giant .pst files in Microsoft Outlook.

Official Gmail Blog: Gmail blog turns 1: Looking back at our 10 most read tips

The more things change, the more they remain the same. A lot of these tips are pretty techie things that most users will never do.

(How many people will use the AND NOT operator, -foo, when searching gmail?)

gmail is rapidly becoming more feature-laden and complex–is this an inevitable product maturity trajectory that will make gmail 2012 = Microsoft Office 2012?

I suspect so–but there will still be one key difference which remains the primary reason why I permanently switched from Office in 2005. No more giant .pst files!