Submitted by Cliffy (not verified) on Mon, 2007-09-17 01:16.
Hi Brian,
Sorry I have been on holiday but to answer your question if you've not tried it already . . . Yes you maintain data locally on your hard drive. Even though the application is not installed on your machine, you just use File | Save as you normally do. I had a file which my computer did not recognise, after i streamed the software, the icon changed immediately.
Yes i have only used it on broadband, and not sure what it would be like on a dial up. But it only uses the connection when you initially activate an application. Once it is streamed to your PC (Open Office took 3 minutes)it uses local systems resources. It only goes back and streams pieces of the software not in the initial install.
I have contacted stream24-7 and they are currently having problems with their internet service provider and the site is not currently working. They say it should be back in the next few days. As you can see I'm quite a fan of this, its clever stuff.
Regards,
Cliffy
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Hi Brian, Sorry I have been
Hi Brian,
Sorry I have been on holiday but to answer your question if you've not tried it already . . . Yes you maintain data locally on your hard drive. Even though the application is not installed on your machine, you just use File | Save as you normally do. I had a file which my computer did not recognise, after i streamed the software, the icon changed immediately.
Yes i have only used it on broadband, and not sure what it would be like on a dial up. But it only uses the connection when you initially activate an application. Once it is streamed to your PC (Open Office took 3 minutes)it uses local systems resources. It only goes back and streams pieces of the software not in the initial install.
I have contacted stream24-7 and they are currently having problems with their internet service provider and the site is not currently working. They say it should be back in the next few days. As you can see I'm quite a fan of this, its clever stuff.
Regards,
Cliffy