![]() ![]() For example, with April 15 just ahead - and it's still the due date for corporate taxes even though you and I have until May 15 to file your personal taxes in the US - the Internet lines to Intuit's Quickbooks Online and TurboTax are burning up. Of course, these days we do this all the time. Anytime you depend entirely on a single cloud-based program or suite you're just asking for trouble. As one person put it on Reddit, "My entire school is pretty much disabled by this, we can’t download Microsoft products on our Chromebooks, or any other writing program for that matter." But it's also a problem that extends beyond just the classroom. When it's down - and it also fails - he's back to watching Peppa Pig. ![]() Everything he learns this year runs on his Chromebook through Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals. Maybe it's because grandson William is currently going to school remotely. I just wrote about this very subject last month. I know there's nothing new about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) failures. And, in both cases, there were many cries of outrage from users. Just yesterday, it was Google Docs going down for the count. Last week, Office 365 and a host of other Microsoft services went down because of a DNS foul-up. ![]()
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