The outage was particularly troubling for SixApart, whose online Web applications depend on continuous uptime to compete with offline tools like Microsoft Word.

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The public beta it announced was for a Web-oriented machine capable of running complex applications on- and offline, which it says can manage multiple users with security and privacy, is automatically updated for speed and security, and has both a WiFi and 3G connection (by working with Verizon).

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