It's also more closely tied to the cloud, saving documents to Microsoft's SkyDrive storage system by default, so your documents and personal settings are remotely accessible.
By default, files are saved to the firm's SkyDrive online cloud storage facility, although users can choose to save them on their hard drive if they wish.
Other players, like Layered Technologies and Enki, which use 3Tera's Applogic software to serve up their computing and storage to customers, will also become part of the standard by default.