Yes, I still love my U3 USB thumb drive, so what about Notes on it via Nomad in 7.0.2? My current thoughts on the press around it
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Listening to the press around the future of Nomad on 7.0.2 it seems that native USB support will be there, just not a full U3 install also. This is not a big deal, as not everyone has a U3 drive. This whole thing came to mind from an interview with the Kingston product manager that is on-line to read from DominoPower.
So what this means from reading, is that Notes will be installable onto any USB drive with enough space. How much will that take? Looking at a current Notes client only, you can expect to rim down templates and some other items for sure. But you will still eat up a couple hundred MB or more minimum. Security of the data is in place, so you can replicate. I am curious about the speed and performance. I am guessing a selective replication for mailfiles would be the way to go, say the last XX days of mail, so you still get folder structure.
If all this works as planned, this will become a great selling point for mobile users. Now, what about kiosks? Those won't be available in most airports, but who would trust their USB on a kiosk nowadays? I imagine with some U3 embedded anti-virus (which is available) it would be more of a warm fuzzy feeling. There is even keystroke logging detection programs.
Can you carry your entire desktop with you? I am getting there. Firefox, Trillian, Skype, soon to be Notes, a PDF reader, OpenOffice and even Zinio for digital magazines. With a couple GB USB drive and U3, visiting the parents and not tugging along the laptop will be a breeze
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On Friday, June 16th, 2006 by Chris Miller
