In other words, if you choose to change cloud vendors or move to an offline system how do you get your data back?

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Examples of this are things like moving from Office to Google Docs, moving from an offline CRM system like ACT to Salesforce.com, or moving from the desktop version of QuickBooks to QuickBooks Online.

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Digital learning, I argue, provides the platform to do this at scale, but in many cases, students may learn better offline, and a system powered by digital learning should be able to accommodate that.

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Microsoft has had to take its ecommerce system, Passport, offline for 48 hours after a programmer in Seattle found a way to steal users' credit card numbers.

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Offline, it functions as a regular GPS system, guiding from point A to point B.

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The operating system still has a ways to go in terms of unifying its offline features, but the move to ARM processors has done much to bolster the browser-focused operating system.

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Because systems infected with DNSChanger have had key settings changed that redirects all their web browsing through these servers, once they are pulled offline, the internet will disappear for anyone using an infected system.

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The agreement will supposedly provide a uniform sales-tax collection system that would apply to all retailers, online and offline alike.

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Anyone with a good customer relationship or contact management system will likely want to bring their contacts and calendar down to their device to look at offline.

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