The following article describes the benefits of cloud computing nicely:
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Google’s Caesar Sengupta, Product Management Director for Chrome, told Metro.co.uk: ‘What you don’t get from this is headaches. With current operating systems, you have to get anti-virus software, you have to worry about backing up your data, you have to worry about what version of the software you’re running, you have to worry about malware.’
‘The Chromebook’s a lot more no-hassle. You open it up, it just works, you don’t have to worry about viruses - it has a pretty crazy amount of security in it - and it’s very easy to share. You just use your computer, close the lid, walk away, come back, open the lid and you’re back to where you were.’
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