http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7693993.stm

The trend to take the personal out of computer has already been gaining momentum with things like Google Docs and such, but now Microsoft is on the band wagon with Microsoft Azure. I do like the term "cloud" computing though.

The aim is to allow developers to build new applications which will live on the internet, rather than on their own computers.

Microsoft believes consumers will also want to store far more of their data - from letters to photos to videos - on the servers in its "cloud" of giant data centres around the world, so that it can be accessed anywhere, from any device.