Cloud vs. On-Premise Software by Simple Example

Here's a very simple example of how my cloud-based email provider beats my on-premise MSFT Outlook managed by the corporate IT.  The scenario is unwanted emails clogging up your "producitivity stream" called Inbox.  Perhaps you subscribed directly or indirectly for updates from vendors, or it's just spam.  In my case, I did test an app and somehow probably checked in for their newsletter.  

Well, it's time to get rid of these updates and guess what - you don't have to go to these websites and manually uncheck their subscription policy, rather the software does it all for you automagically in the background.  Actually I've forgotten the last time that a software feature made me feel good (the design thinkers around would call it a delightful experience). And it has no UI (pun intended).

At the same time, in the parallel universe called enterprise - my Outlook 2006 continues to get spammed by "Hi Filip, I was wondering if you might be interested in..."  Now, Microsoft might even develop this cool smart feature by their next release scheduled for 2015, and by 2020 the IT might provision it on the image of my laptop.  No wonder why even Microsoft has realized the power of cloud and recently started pushing Outlook.com for people to get great updates like this and more.