Online document services

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Technology is analogous to a coin, it has two faces to it. Every little technology has a major story to tell us about its advantages and disadvantages. Especially in this era of innovation, witnessing advancements in technology have become as common as witnessing the sun rise everyday morning. What was popular yesterday is obsolete today and what is popular today will be obsolete tomorrow. We are here to discuss one such major advancement in technology - Online Document Service.

Online document service enables users to create, store and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. This enables users to access their documents anytime and anywhere without having to download any piece of software on their local hardware. Though the features provided by these online document services are not as rich as the currently available software solutions, which are to be installed on the users local hardware, we are not far from experiencing a major change over.

Will these online document services completely replace the need of software solutions? What are the major con's the online document service providers need to address?