While that is true and you cant hold them to the same levels as high end commercial, if they want you to use them and rely on them, something like this is unacceptable.
But we already have that in a way here in the US, since most every major city in America has cameras on every building. ( and many many intersections ).
Sure they don't get your ID, but if they get your face, and can track you to somewhere you might have used a CC card or ATM, or if you get into your car ( license plate ) they got you.
Reasonable expectations of privacy is part of freedom. Did you enjoy it while we had it?
Sounds like a windows terminal to me. You can be instant on, and lease all your applications from microsoft.
Of course, now that we have metered service back, that will again kill the ASP business model off, this time once and for all. ( just in time for us all having enough bandwidth to make it finally work, the rug was pulled out from underneath us )
All it does is tell if you have what is current. and since release schedules are different for everyone, it doesn't natively even tell you how old your software is.
Version numbers are so arbitrary that its about meaningless.
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Companies do this all the time. THey dot have drivers/trucks so they lease them. Some even stick their company logo over the rental logo.
No different then drop shipping sales from some other company.
They were the VAR in the loop.
Id go so far as to say there would be no Microsoft.
They were founded on piracy. They also benefited greatly over the decades from piracy as kids learned THIER software, not others..
F-ing hypocrites
Does this get added to that database discussed earler? Oh, and along with the tracking of your daily activities ?
Speak for yourself, some of us have NOT given up our privacy like you have.
Just because people bend over for violation A, doesn't mean we have to accept violation B, or C.
When i flip the bastards off?
This is REALLY getting out of hand.
Are we sure the AA's aren't involved in some back room, pulling the strings to cause this guy more grief?
He was in effect in direct competition to the 'industry'.
No, its just the entire world.
Don't you have any of those pre-pay phones that don't require contracts?
Of course buying one anonymously will soon be banned anywhere on the globe and require DNA to get service, but i'm commenting on the 'always' comment.
If you have 'forbidden knowledge' in a document, it goes poof with no recourse on your part..
Oh, and it notifies the local authorities.
While that is true and you cant hold them to the same levels as high end commercial, if they want you to use them and rely on them, something like this is unacceptable.
Its MY device i do what I want with it.
Civilization in general reacts better towards that then any other for of government.
The problem is that absolute power guarantees they wont be benevolent for long.
He should get a medal instead.
Ya, PDA's would never have a future.
Sure they are phones now, but just think of the years of sales they lost when Jobs pulled the plug on them, after basically creating the PDA market.
But we already have that in a way here in the US, since most every major city in America has cameras on every building. ( and many many intersections ).
Sure they don't get your ID, but if they get your face, and can track you to somewhere you might have used a CC card or ATM, or if you get into your car ( license plate ) they got you.
Reasonable expectations of privacy is part of freedom. Did you enjoy it while we had it?
Ok, ill give you that, and i agree consistency is a good thing, but an interface alone is sort of useless. The phone has to DO something..
While this might be 'neat', its the applications that really matter.
Sounds like a windows terminal to me. You can be instant on, and lease all your applications from microsoft.
Of course, now that we have metered service back, that will again kill the ASP business model off, this time once and for all. ( just in time for us all having enough bandwidth to make it finally work, the rug was pulled out from underneath us )
All it does is tell if you have what is current. and since release schedules are different for everyone, it doesn't natively even tell you how old your software is.
Version numbers are so arbitrary that its about meaningless.
Umm a 3 second search on here ..
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/12/1931233
The world will self-destruct due to the stupidity.
Like the ones that cause hair loss in men that was discovered earlier this week. :)
Oh, and if hear 'rich experience' one more time i think i'm going to puke.
I am so sick of reading these tech articles with an anti-MS bias to them.
As a developer, isn't the point to write better/more robust code??
Well of course, but since when has any Microsoft tool kit provided 'better/robust' code? ( its been decades )
Their current crop of tool kits ( and language of the week ) are the pinnacle of bloat and internal inefficiency.
Its easier to blame the technology then to accept responsibility for your actions.