@NStalnecker "I want my files on my hard drive."
I second that. First, the best security is physical security, and second, the best backup is a physical backup.
However, I've used Google Docs to collaborate with off-site workers in outside organizations, and it was fast and effective. If Google could build an MS Office plug-in or more specifically a plug-in for Excel and Word that would update an on-line (cloud) document with changes made to a hard drive based primary version, and allow careful updating of a hard drive based primary version from a Google Docs version, the consumer would no doubt win, but Google could prevent SharePoint from taking over the Cloud.
I like Apple's old idea of "Publish" which they introduced circa 1990 in Mac OS 7.1 before the "cloud" was even a tinkle in anyone's eye. But even now I use Google Docs to rapidly collaborate, I'm just careful to keep it subject to my physical copy and extra careful to keep proprietary info from getting into the "cloud" version. Extra work, but does the trick.
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