The web Office 2010 isn't available to look at right now as far as I'm aware. Will take a look when it is. I imagine the apps will be somewhat cut down as Google Docs are. We'll still be doing the serious heavy lifting on our PCs and Macs.

I'm a big fan of the Cloud for storage though I prefer Sugarsync to Dropbox - http://davidhewson.com/2010/04/22/some-new-ways-to-make-sure-you-dont-lose-stuff/ - and as I say in this article there are gotchas with using Scrivener files with such systems. They're not really files at all but folders and things can turn nasty if one bit of that folder info goes astray.

So really I don't see that we'll be using Cloud word processors as heavy duty word processors in the near future. But I think as a backup medium it's fantastic. Sugarsync blows Time Machine out of the water.

As for Apple.. I am even more pissed off with them now than when I wrote this. Today I went out and bought a £460 Hewlett Packard i3 Windows 7 desktop box. When Apple deliver the £100 piece of kit that lets me attach it to their proprietary Displayport connector on my LED Cinema Display -- that says it all doesn't it? -- I will be able to choose between W7 and OS X at will (OS X 64 bit isn't supported on my Mac mini even though it's patently capable of running  it - and does after a fashion).

Word 2010 on Windows is quite an amazing piece of work once you kill the bling. I think I may have bought my last piece of Apple kit.