Marc Duchesne recently underwent the pain that most other PC / laptop users experience at some point of time : the blue screen of death & unable to boot thereafter. And he writes about how having his files, links, projects online saved him.

Now, the really good thing of all this mess : I can get back all my mission-critical files, PDF docs, URLs, etc. Thanks to the lovely Zoho suite, Zoho Projects in particular. I use Zoho everyday, as my mission planner and database. I put almost everything on it : draft presentations, spreadsheets, web links, PDF documents...

I can now restore my offline base, without fearing files losses. Outcome : I'll use Zoho Show to create my next presentation.

Such stories will become common as more and more people realize the accessibility, affordability & safety that online applications offer versus storing everything on a laptop or PC. Reminds me of this interview of Sridhar's.