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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
Not everyone has unlimited bandwidth.
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Not only that, not everyone is comfortable using a cloud as the only form of backing up vital data. Businesses of various kinds will still need to be able to use removable storage, and so will lots of individuals, based on what exactly their data is, and how important it is to them to have immediate access to a backup, without needing to go online.
Different situations create different computing needs, and Microsoft has in the past been good about acknowledging that, that's why there are Home and Business versions of their operating systems. I'm sure Windows 8 will be great for devices where the primary input method is a touch screen and removable storage devices aren't used. But for someone who types large amounts of text every day, who frequently uses multiple removable storage drives and switches between them a lot, and so on, it's probably not a good solution.