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Office 2007 is more than most people need, and much of what's there doesn't have to run on a PC. Some apps, such as video editing, demand the power of a desktop, concedes Google's Girouard. On the other hand, "there's a lot of cases where having applications and data in the cloud makes a lot more sense," he says. Collaboration applications come to mind. What's more, as more people want to remotely access apps using a multiplicity of devices with varying operating systems, it makes more sense to have them centrally stored and accessible by Web browser.