its a misnomer...
.. the mere fact you've given the responsibility of your infrastructure to a third party means that, aside from you, somebody else has access to it. You've basically lowered the bar on the 'physical' aspect of a secure network.
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the lawyer only needs to prove it once.. then his case can be used as a precedent.. if apple pays 550 equivalent for each of the 27k complainants that's 14.8M. Lawyers typically get 20% or more for this type of litigation and that'd be a cool 2.97M brit bucks.. that's not peanuts anymore.
.. the move of apps to the web, specially business apps, means that the OS loses many of its relevance in traditional computing (e.g. application security, session management etc). The greatest enemy of Microsoft is not their old OS, its their lack of imagination. Recommending people to use Active Directory?!! those are technology shackles!
.. its Apple. Here's why: with the success of iphone and ipad and the seamless integration with the apps, Google sees the exclusive ecosystem of i-everything as a real threat to their business. Android was the answer to the mobility threat and more importantly as a platform for google apps (existing and new ones). I've seen G+ on my iphone and it dawned on me.. if Apple approves Google's G+ app application (it's not only circles there mind you) in its apps store then nothing will prevent Google from going in from the backdoor and running other google apps in that G+ app, it'll be like Android within iphone. A modern Trojan Horse so to speak. I dont think Steve will like this at all.
to my company anyway. We're already in tail end of the process of being post-microsoft everything.. and that will culminate in 6 months.. just one old crappy VFP application app left to migrate to a webapp.
With their 365 offering, M$ has finally admitted, that the traditional OS (any OS) will soon become irrelevant.
..hmm.. ok we're running an ISP. From a normally 450k listed IP's in our dynamically generated spam database its now down to 280k (IP's get removed after 7 days)... that's 37% less listed IPs, as for the actual volume about 10% less. What this means, at least from our point of view, is yes they've disabled a lot of servers doing C&C -- I dont think they can do much to zombied PC's which are probably still up and running and very much still hacked just waiting for a command to begin spitting out trash again.
..is a bad deal. This is a very expensive buy out for what basically amounts to a user-base buyout (MS certainly has the technology to do something similar) . yes they're buying a lot of free loaders (me included).. and we're a very loyal bunch.
As one of the millions of 'active' skype users listed in the buyout briefing papers... the reason why I still have my skype account is because in the oft chance that I need to use it for a 'formal' telecon with partners (so far we're perfectly happy piddling with email and chat -- couldnt remember when I last used skype) and second I'm too lazy to do any uninstalls or unregisters anywhere.
.. why doesnt MS base their next OS on a unix derivative? same way that MacOSX is based on BSD. I dont think this is far-out at some point the browser is the OS... and yes I think chrome is way ahead of its time. It might seem 'too early' now but they're pushing the envelope on whats possible, not so with MS.
..good luck steve! telecom companies worldwide are seeing dropping 'voice' calls and plateauing SMS revenues and while skype calls might be growing its not growing as fast as the alternatives ie email, social networks etc. I wont be surprised if in a few years we'll see companies with absolutely no phone number listed.
beer.. to toast the band of money men laughing their way to the bank with Bill and Steve's money!