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Are you worried about malware being written to target these just like some variants target USB thumb drives or mobile phones? It seems to me that if you sold millions of these to grade schools and then the kids took them home and plugged them into their home computer, the unwary student might inadvertently be the typhoid Mary of a pandemic or spreading stuff to their home computer where their parents sensitive data is stored. Are there any plans to develop tools to or methodologies to prevent such a thing from happening? It just seems that there's a small chance botnet writers, malware authors or maybe even an especially talented student could take advantage of this even if the payload isn't for the architecture or operating system on the Raspberry Pi.

Oops, wrong article. Here's one that mentions reports of dual-mode screens.

Well both you and the poster are correct. The current A4 and A5 are stacked as other many other package on package chips. However, normally the memory is stacked on the CPU. In the case of the A4 and A5 the L2 cache is stacked on the ARM cores. The CPUs are not stacked probably for the heat problems that you mention.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/229401282

Do you think they meant the Google+ identity service?

It was when Microsoft launched the Zune. We kept reading articles about how Zune sales were meeting all of Microsoft's expectations, and how it quickly shot up until it was outselling all other non-Apple portable music players. Heck, there was even a time when the Zune supposedly outsold the iPod. Oh, and of course there was the "never count out Microsoft" crowd. Yeah, the Zune did really well... right up until they stopped making them.

More recently, we've heard similar things about Windows Phone 7 devices. Microsoft may have a bit more leverage here moving forward *cough*Nokia*cough*, but so far it hasn't added up to much.

In a lot of ways, Microsoft's past monopolistic behavior has turned around to bite itself in the butt - it's forgotten how to compete, and it still hasn't demonstrated it really understands anything but PCs (the XBox 360 seems to be the exception that proves the rule). So while it might be possible there's an opening in the tablet marketplace, it remains to be seen whether Microsoft is the company that can take advantage of it.

I for one wonder how AAPL has avoided anti-trust litigation

That is explicitly because Microsoft has been waving the antitrust flag at Google for about 2 years now. In Europe and the US Microsoft gathered a group of their partners together and filed antitrust complaints against Google In Europe and USA.

With all the recent layoffs that Cisco has had recently, you'd think they'd find a better way to continue to save money rather than axing employees and then taking the saved salaries and redirecting it to the lawyers.

I have not seen very many predictions come true.

E.g. "Spam Will Be 'Solved' In 2 Years--Gates" from 2004:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/17500979

Many other predictions have been removed, so I can't give links, but e.g. ethernal life, Solar tower, Iter (fusion reactor), space elevator predictions have been updated to another date. E.g. Iter was supposed to be ready in 2015 (predicted 2005) and now it is supposed to be up and running by 2019. So 6 years passed and the date was changed by 4 years.

From my own personal list of predictions (made by others) 0 / 7 have come true. Many of them are quite far in the future (e.g. year 2050 seems to be popular, by then we should have a robot team beating human champions in soccer). I actually think personally that it will happen sooner, but I'm no better than others predicting the future.

Lockheed after the RSA breach.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/229700151

Reasons RIM is circling the drain:

#1 - You used to have two options: Desktop Redirector or on-server redirector. Desktop Redirector "worked" but was otherwise always Pure Fucking Crap, and required that your home or work desktop be on 24/7 and that you be logged in to it with the program running. On-server redirector worked a hell of a lot better, didn't require a running PC, but ate up a ton of server horsepower, required some pretty arcane setup, and cost an arm and a leg to license.

Now, you can do the same damn thing on a Droid or iOS phone with Outlook, Google, or a hundred other options... at no extra cost beyond the server.

#2 - Attachments. Back in the day, Crackberries had "a few apps" and could occasionally read a text-file or really, really freaking small attachment (again, only on server: desktop redirector didn't "do" attachments). Now, I can load and read virtually any attached document on a Droid or iOS phone.

#3 - Apps. Face it, the amount of stuff I can load onto my Droid phone is incredible... more to the point, useful. RIM, meanwhile, has made programming for even their newest phones so arcane that developers who were gung-ho on the platform initially have thrown their hands up in disgust and walked away.

#4 - Hubris, Hubris, Hubris.The only reason RIM is even still alive is that it's going to take another year and a half for people who are "locked in" to a free-handset contract with their phone provider to get out. Meanwhile, we're recommending to every person that comes in wanting help with their blackberry that when the time comes, they should really strongly consider looking at the iOS or Droid phones, that play well with our environment without requiring dozens of hours of tweaking, constant settings resets, and can do a lot more.

The latest reports claim 500,000 units per day , which is up from 300,000/day at the end of last year and 160,000/day from a year ago. If Microsoft could get $10 per phone at those numbers, that's almost $2 billion a year in effectively pure profit, or around 10% of their yearly profit. And in all likelihood Android's numbers are only going to continue growing.

Damn; you're right.

I get it that it would take the a whole lot processing power to deal with the slew of private keys, but beyond that, encryption in this case looks gimmicky for the user. Only good if someone hacks in the FS remotely, steals a backup tape, or finds a discarded drive from their SAN.

Yeah, this is really nothing special. Maybe we should build our own?

Remind me again why anyone would invest their own time developing new iPhone apps?

Because iOS is by far the most successful mobile OS to develop for.

Wrong. Android is the most successful. Citation is here

Ahh... don't you just love smell of a fresh straw-man in the morning.

Are you deliberately denying reality or just giving us a personal demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Did you even check the links in TFS? Here's the one from Information Week in 2007 which describes one such experiment. The unpatched XP PC stayed clean for all of 8 seconds connected without firewalls to the internet. Then Sasser and other bad stuff started installing itself on the PC. GP's assertion is valid - an unpatched XP PC can be compromised in less than 10 seconds without a firewall.

Eight seconds according to this InformationWeek story. So make sure to have the Service Pack 3 disc handy if you'll be providing PC repair service to someone who might have Windows XP RTM or SP1 discs, so that you can install the service pack before connecting the computer to the Internet.

Don't forget the shady stuff the maker of NoScript tried just 2 years ago. He silently killed part of AdBlock on comuters it was installed on, and obfuscated what he was doing. The shit really hit the fan before he started backpedaling and reversed his position. I don't trust the guy.

http://www.techjaws.com/the-noscript-controversy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/app-security/217201461

Don't know about Apple, but Amazon deleted books at the kindle after people bought them, but at least they refunded the money and they also said they wouldn't do it any more.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229401646
The NSA is hinting at "... Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, so developers can write apps that get shared and can run database queries across agencies."
Dont worry the "security wrapper" and private clouds will keep it all safe.

LOLWUT?

YA RLY

The iPhone started the migration from web applications to client apps - their rejection of Flash actually played a large part in that - it would be ironic, except that was actually their intent.

You might remember the original iPhone was webapp only and there was a big kerfuffle about it: "No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps". It was marketed as "The internet in your pocket". They did eventually release an SDK of course but even now they do not do what the OP accuses them of, namely mixing the two. They've always cleanly separated web and native, keeping the web part as based on common, universal standards as they keep the native part closed. If there has been a migration from web to native don't blame Apple for giving people what they want.

This is apparently the original article.
I'm with the Motorola-is-stupid crowd on this one. They are a hardware/telecom company, not a software company. They have no demonstrated track record of developing a competent, competitive smartphone OS. Short of buying Palm's WebOS, which maybe they should have done ...
That said, I wish MOT well because a little competition is good for the consumer. I would prefer that they work on perfecting their tablets and smartphones in the Android space, however. The Xoom is a great first effort. Why not tweak it until it's flawless and best-of-breed? Why not help Google improve Android in the areas where MOT feels it's deficient? For a lot less money and resources than developing their own proprietary crappy OS, they can be very competitive
Methinks Motorola is not thinking this through very clearly. Then again, it's just a rumor.

Does any body notice a pattern?

Nokia rejects Android in favor of Microsoft Winows Mobile 7.
HP rejects Android in favor of a web OS.
HTC decides to build Windows Mobile 7 in addition to Android to be safe.
Motorola, a leading Android manufacturer, let's it escape that it's premier Andoid Tablet isn't doing all that well so they are not planing on manufacturing it past June 2011.
Motorola is having difficulty keeping the secret it wants to use a Web OS instead of Android which is the subject of this thread.
This week Goggle let's it slip that the Chinese are producing crappy Android phones and tablets that increasingly are giving the Android brand a bad name.

Blogs and pundits start talking about the quarter million Android that were burnt by hackers rooting the hardware right from the Google marketplace. Other developers discover their apps are being copied and sold in that same marketplace, not mentioning the sheer volume of Android app piracy is taking money away from them every day.

Some Android manufacturers now face over thirty lawsuits demanding compensation for technology infringement.

This is all good news for the future of Android?

How?

Why then is anyone surprised all the larger hardware manufacturers are now working on a 'PLAN B' instead of betting the farm on Android past 2011?

This is apparently the original article. If you google the headline, you find about 20 copies on various blogs. I don't understand why Slashdot submitters can't at least link to the original, unless they have a stake in the blog.

I'm with the Motorola-is-stupid crowd on this one. They are a hardware/telecom company, not a software company. They have no demonstrated track record of developing a competent, competitive smartphone OS. Short of buying Palm's WebOS, which maybe they should have done instead of letting HP have it, they don't have much hope of keeping up with the Android and iOS juggernauts. Even Rim, the erstwhile smartphone king, has a teeny little app market compared to the two others, and their market share is shrinking, not growing.

That said, I wish MOT well because a little competition is good for the consumer. I would prefer that they work on perfecting their tablets and smartphones in the Android space, however. The Xoom is a great first effort. Why not tweak it until it's flawless and best-of-breed? Why not help Google improve Android in the areas where MOT feels it's deficient? For a lot less money and resources than developing their own proprietary crappy OS, they can be very competitive.

Methinks Motorola is not thinking this through very clearly. Then again, it's just a rumor.

You must be one of those <Air Force sockpuppets> I've been reading about. I mean, that wicked argument you just presented there. Nobody could stand up to that. You're the guys sending all those tweets "from Libya" calling for help, right?

Microsoft shill.

<United States Air Force>

Read his last statement..

It looks like iPhone and Windows Phone 7 are more mature and professional.

<Begun, the clone wars have>

They were using a custom app. Not the default browser. So what they are saying is that their app runs faster on the Nexus S. Not that the Nexus S is faster then the iPhone.

And therein is the problem with this study -- it didn't use the actual Web browsers. It used the browser's rendering engines, but through this custom application. That significantly undercuts the results.

-- Information Week

I'd have to disagree with Eric Zeman... this is exactly the kind of stuff that's important. If you write an app that relies on the rendering engines as available to a custom app, you would want to know if you're being hog-tied.

Basically, Apple is gaming the benchmarks and deliberately slowing down stuff when it's for 3rd party developers. It's no different that that old quake3/quack3 trick, and the old tricks Microsoft did to guarantee Office ran faster on Windows than competing productivity suites.

That's when the Native Development Kit was first released.

Though arguably, since 2.2's inclusion of an automatic JIT compiler, everything is native code now. And of course the system libraries always were, which is what 90%+ of most apps' time is spent in.

Then there's the hardware - CPU speed, available RAM etc, which tend to be higher on flagship Android devices as a rule. But I expect you're not really interested in actual resulting performance, you've probably just got something against VMs.

Where does Linux fail where BSD succeeds?

For some people it's the licensing (BSD vs GPL). For others it is the coherence of the system (how many places hide an IP address in Red Hat?). For others, it is a question of style (BSD vs AT&T type Unix). For some, its functionality (I always liked the way the BSD _______ command worked). From some, it's the simple Joy of BSD, or the McKusick - take your pick. For some, it could be the approach taken to a particular problem taken by one of the BSDs, such as the continuous OpenBSD code audits. For some it might be a particular platform maintained as part of the main distribution. For some, it may be the continuing BSD innovations. For some it might be the counter-culture aspect BSD in the Linux world. Plenty more reasons that people could have, including: Linux - 5 letters, BSD - 3 letters. Do the math.

You could say that the only truly popular Unix desktop is Apple's Macintosh running OS X.
Mac OS X: What is BSD?

What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?

OpenBSD FreeBSD NetBSD PC BSD

FreeBSD Mall BSD Magazine

To each his own.

Here, I found some related news from 2007 which hammers home what I'm saying about Microsoft, patents, and GPLv3.

I understand that the iPhone has a much nicer interface than phones of old. I did think the interface sucked on WinMo 5 & 6 (though it wasn't quite so bad with an HTC overlay), and I was glad Apple forced the other guys to actually put some effort into interface design.

But there are a few nice-to-use alternatives now. Nice to use, as well as better featured.

It's not the platform they enjoy if people are always ditching their "old" model as soon as possible. It's the brand. It's fashion, like I said. The latest fashions eventually go out of season and are sold at bargain stores for 1/10th the price. Now human nature, with tech toys especially, is like this in general of course - but I've never seen anything quite so fickle as the trend for people to want to upgrade to the next iPhone simply because it exists. It's perhaps a result of the very limited product range.. if there was the same abundance of iOS phones that there are with Android phones, people wouldn't really care so much about new models.

"This shouldn't be surprising - an organization's purpose is to do what it does, to quote somebody or other. TJX is making money off transactions; security is only incidental" ..

Except the transactions were handled by Heartland Payment Systems, an organization supposedly charged with securing credit card transactions.

It says so, right here:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000789

-AI

Claiming that he wanted to help AT&T improve its security, he wrote a computer script to extract the data from AT&T and then went public with the information.

Claiming to help? That is a great excuse there. They found a security hole in the system and instead of just reporting it to AT&T they pulled down private information which they did NOT have the right to access. In other words I left my front door unlocked, this doesn't give you the right to go in and snoop around and take my stuff, you CAN however report to me and the newspaper that my door is unlocked. That is why these "hackers" are in trouble. AT&T probably looked at the exploit and then realized not only was there a problem but the people reporting it took private and sensitive information, this then required them to go to the legal system because their liable for this. Most of these major companies have insurance to cover these types of incidents but unless they follow protocol the insurance might not pay out.

Also the article attached to slashdot is missing information. They also gave the private information to Gawker.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000863&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

And in apparently chat logs exists of these "hackers" discussing to sell or use this information in an illegal way.

http://www.crn.com/news/security/229000878/feds-nab-web-trolls-in-at-t-ipad-hack.htm

Hows about investing some of their increased profits plus the tax dollars they have been given to improve their networks to actually do so?

Comcast Profit up 12%
Comcast Profits Rise Despite the Recession
Time Warner Profits up 7%, Beating Forcasts

Correlation != Causation. I can set up an XP Sp2 machine with NO patches, NO AV or antispy, and then change the background to a LOLCat. Then when I use the machine only on the LAN I will have NO viruses, but I don't really think I can claim my magic LOLCat picture done saved me, do you trollie?

Here is some more to rub your little nose in, but if you were actually capable of logic you could see why the entire HOSTS file concept is a fallacy.

Now do try to keep up: For the HOSTS file to provide a truly effective protection he will have to have ALL the websites that he crosses that can infect him, as well as any and all of the sites THOSE link to, all loaded into his magical HOSTS file. Now considering we are talking on average 100,000 to 200,000 websites PER day in a list that will literally change by the minute, with a site that was safe 20 minutes ago being dangerous now and vice versa, even if Trollie had four hand with 20 fingers on each and typed 36 hours a day he will STILL LOSE. It is simple mathematics and I really shouldn't have to give a fifth grade statistics lesson on why the odds simply aren't in his favor.

But as I said to you before Trollie, PLEASE, believe in your magical woobie. Toss ALL your AV and antispy, hell you don't even need a firewall thanks to your magical woobie. Please do so as both the repairmen and malware writers just looooove stupid people. It makes us lots of $$$. I only hope you don't end up part of a botnet running illegal activity, because those conversation with the men with crewcuts and guns really isn't pleasant from what I've been told.

The main thing I have against Opera is that a small (probably vanishingly so) portion of their user base is absolute evangelical morons who have to run around to any forum where Opera is even slightly mentioned and post 7000 identical responses (anonymously) saying that Opera is the pinnacle of human technology. Everything has fan boys, but Opera's are even more annoying than most.

So you use Windows over Linux, then? And you must absolutely despise Firefox, considering the extremely poor reputation of Firefox fans.

Funny how you have to justify your choices by attacking others. Especially since you desperately cling to open-source, which is well known for its zealous user base.

All fanboys should die.

The way you are bashing the user base of one browser, makes you one yourself. Congratulations. Hypocrisy rocks!

Also, there was still plenty of room for growth in the console market

And there's not room for growth in the smartphone market? So after 3 years, Apple, Google, and the rest have cornered the entire market, and now growth in this segment is a zero sum game?

Or perhaps in the US alone, only 20% of the phones out there are smart phones and the numbers are rising rapidly. This would suggest that there is plenty of room for growth, at least in America. I would be willing to bet the global numbers are similar.

Halo 3 broke all the video game sales records. So yes, it does have something on Madden.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202102318

But that story is five years old, and it doesn't seem to have popped up in news or articles very much since then. THe Linux Foundation made an anouncement in 2007 that they were also putting one together to defend against MS: http://www.betanews.com/article/Linux-Foundation-We-Have-Our-Own-Patent-Arsenal/1180127700 as well, and that has shown up a bit more recently

See my subject-line above, & this -> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/08/BU85830.DTL&type=tech_article

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT #1 of 2:

"Linux is a form of Unix"

and also this -> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/02/letter_writers.html;jsessionid=ZVAVPXEVVZMITQE1GHRSKH4ATMY32JVN

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT #2 of 2:

"Unix as an operating system is not disappearing because of Linux. Linux is Unix"

APK

P.S.=> Well, "will wonders NEVER cease"... however: I have always wondered IF those are "official", & what-not, though... any takers? Thanks for the info., either way... apk

a deaf man telling others how to sing. Maybe they should get their act together before giving lessons...

As long as we're talking about Mobile... did Windows Phone 7 kill Dell's mobile division?

But yet the come, start their business, succeed or fail based on their concept, efforts, and efficiency.

Businesses succeed or fail based on their ability to get backing from the investment classes. Much of that ability has little to do with concept, efforts, and efficiency; it has instead to do with dumb luck and shameless gaming of the system.

Microsoft, for example, got big by buying stolen ideas, riding IBM's coattails, exploiting Billy Boy's Harvard connections, and then once they got big enough, ruthlessly gaming the system in the ways we all know and love. Hell, Billy started his business career by lying to MITS about having writen a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800.

Yes the big players can Game Google to push their links higher, (for a while anyway) but when the small company's happy customers (or unhappy ones) start tweeting for friending, yelping, or what-ever-is-nexting, it won't matter.

And then the big players start gaming Twitter, Facebook, or whatever is next.

Not the sales they're reporting at least.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4XPMLS5U3OEIRQE1GHRSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=228200850&pgno=2&queryText=&isPrev=

Microsoft's most recent Windows sales totals got a boost from the fact the company quietly added revenues it previously assigned to other groups to its operating systems unit, a bit of accounting legerdemain that, along with other bookkeeping moves, helped the Windows group post big gains in the past quarter,

Windows sales from the OEM channel, which account for 75% of all Windows sales, increased just 11% year-over-year when the deferral program is considered. Not bad, but it's pretty much in line with most estimates for overall PC market growth during the period, including Microsoft's own.

To boot, data from market watcher Net Applications shows Windows has actually lost more than 1% of market share since last December, though it still commands more than 91% of the PC OS market.

Microsoft is running scared and cooking their books. Ballmer knows - he's dumping 30% of his Microsoft shares.

They're heading for an Enron for sure...

HP Pretexting Charges Dismissed: "Charges against defendants in the Hewlett-Packard pretexting case have been dismissed."

I have to be devil's advocate here, but for what Exchange does, it does well:

Need secure connections between you and a client over the Internet at the TLS level? Done.

Zimbra does that... check.

Need antispam protection? Exchange is decent at stomping spam, and the rules are often updated by MS.

Zimbra does that too, with regularly updated spamassassin rules and training capable bayesian filters... check.

Need support for the devices the PHB use? Built in and far cheaper than BES.

An AJAX Mobile Web Client, an iphone app, Windows Mobile, and in the advanced version, even BlackBerry support if you want it.... check.

Need support for the PHBs to send meetings, tasks, status reports, IRM [1], etc.? Exchange is the only thing out there.

Full mail integrated calendering support, tasks and documents etc... check.

Need support for large amounts of mailboxes? Exchange is the only game in town.

Multi gigabyte mailbox storage needs, easy to do, even in the opensource edition, including special search and filtering optimizations... check.

Need support for hub/edge configurations? Nothing else out there that can handle this scaling.

Yep, scale out your auth servers, your MTA Agents and Mailbox storage servers onto separate boxes, cluster them together, flexibility and scalability galore... check.

[1]: Yes, DRM sucks, but if it comes to a choice between using Microsoft's document protection versus having personal data leaked, I'll take IRM versus the bad press.

Well, it's quite likely that sometime in the future, with all the strong single-office-suite lock in, IRM will be the bad press. As for it protecting against leaks, have a look at this. http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601781

I have to be devil's advocate here, but for what Exchange does, it does well:

It does it barely well enough to survive, and sometimes not even so, while hogging resources like nobody's business. If it weren't for the ecosystem being so popular, it would have been left in the dust long ago....

Note : I am not a zimbra dev, just an admin who has managed to stay clear of exchange while still providing the features that my users want.

Another point is that H-1B workers are required, by law, to be paid at least the "prevailing wage" based on their work and geographical location. While this is by no means perfect, it does provide some protection against wage depression.

"Less the perfect" hardly describes the situation. In some career fields, jobs are very well defined, in IT it is just the opposite, i.e. a sysadmin may also be the DBA and/or a developer; or a developer may work as an admin, or a network engineer. In IT, the phrase "prevailing wage" is completely meaningless.

Also, there is zero budget allocated for enforcement. Nobody in the government even bothers to check if employers are complying. But, the numbers that have been reported are indicative of massive violations: In 2007 the medium wage for new H1B hires was $50K, less than what new grads with zero experience make. Furthermore, 90% of H-1B employers' prevailing wage claims for programmers were below the median U.S. wage for that occupation and location, with 62% being in the bottom 25%.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000479&pgno=3&queryText=&isPrev=

Samsung makes robotic turrets, they just need to be mounted on autonomous vehicles. As long as Google doesn't open an office there we're safe.

Too late. Save yourselves!

Oracle makes 90% of its profits from support contracts renewals. Customers renew to get continued support for whatever Oracle sold them, and to get access to the newer versions. We'd have to ask them to get actual numbers, but say x% renew because they want support/upgrades for Oracle DB, y% renew because they want support/upgrades for some enterprise app, surely z% renew because they want support/upgrades for JVM/Netbeans/some other Java bollocks.

I didn't say it was moral, good for you, or the route to improved community(s) relationships. It is what Oracle does: make money.

No, you're not listening, er reading. You don't make money by paying billions of dollars buying a company then dumping that company's products. Nor do you as a software business make money by treating developers of your platform like shit. Oracle is foolhardy doing so. Sure right now they're the 800 pound gorilla but there are other enterprise scale databases on the market. Microsoft will even help customers transition from Oracle to SQL Server. IBM has it's own offering, DB2 as does HP. Of course there are also open source based DBMSs such as ones based on PostgreSQL, Computer Associates spin-off Ingres, and Firebird.

Falcon

Gadgets are gadgets. Gadgets may resemble tools but tools are specifically designed for their purpose(s).
Nothing will replace a workstation's keyboard, local storage and large displays for professionals, they may be plugged into a smaller case/form-factor but it will still need a functional environment, applications for tasks and data back-ups. MS is driving hard to sign-up the masses for streaming services in the "cloud" so they can sell dumb(er) products and meter all the utility however they deem fit(fit=profitable). Reality is vapor and finger-pointing is what you get when services and connections are disrupted or storage crashes with no recovery. I'd prefer to put my head in a lion's mouth than to put my data in MS's, or anyone else's, "cloud".