I think this is yet another great reason not to use operating systems and software tied to corporate entities. And an additional validation of using open source software.
As we've seen rather prominently over the past year, corporations are taking (and being given) broader powers to police, judge and sentence their customers. We saw this with rental car companies in the NE, using GPS to collect data and fine customers.
I don't think it would take a lot of pressure on Microsoft to provide backdoors or build in other limits in the "interest" of intellectual property and copyrights. Particularly when this helps further their own technological agenda.
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I think this is yet another great reason not to use operating systems and software tied to corporate entities. And an additional validation of using open source software. As we've seen rather prominently over the past year, corporations are taking (and being given) broader powers to police, judge and sentence their customers. We saw this with rental car companies in the NE, using GPS to collect data and fine customers. I don't think it would take a lot of pressure on Microsoft to provide backdoors or build in other limits in the "interest" of intellectual property and copyrights. Particularly when this helps further their own technological agenda.