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Re:Google account suspended: A post mortem by jyothi on Friday August 07, 2009 @02:20AM (#747138)
My account was once temporarily suspended. Reason was probably because I used to have 2 different gmail id one for personal and one for office adwords, adsense, analytics, webmaster etc.

Had a very similar experience of realizing how much we rely on google. I couldn't check my emails, could not IM anyone except for the ones on old ICQ account. Have no access to a report I was creating on google spreadsheets and fear of having lost all photographs on picasa, my reader list, calendar and more.

Google is already a pseudo-desktop/OS on the web. And if that crashes its as worse as a MS blue screen.

Re:Google account suspended: A post mortem by jacquesm on Friday August 07, 2009 @02:32AM (#747156)
Open Office is gratis, and USB sticks are cheap.

When you really think about it if you are a single user you do not actually need google docs.