Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

While reading through this post which discusses several office applications and their approach to group collaboration and offline editing, I once again got amazed as to how fast our expectations of technology grow.  Just think about the complexity of the problem scope - synchronizing a document which has been edited by serveral people, some of who has probably worked online.  And we, end-users, just expect this stuff to work.  More so, we expect it to work in all available alternatives.  And even more so, we expect this functionality to be given to us for free…

I guess I’m just trying not to remind myself of how things used to be five, ten, or fifteen years ago…