Don't you just love the smell of licensing and napalm first thing in the morning?

Paris - because she never asked for subscriptions for her film "one night in Paris".

Remember, didn't they just kill off their music subscription service recently??????

So, I have to ask, why would anyone in their 'right mind' get on board the 'M$ Titanic'???

in France.

Bunch of "one care"'s...

Why would you, as a business, entrust your potentially business-critical IP:

* To a Service Provider you can't monitor or have independent verification of your data security? Can you hire a 3rd Party to investigate their internal procedures & verify that they're doing what they claim, that your data is as disaster-resistant as they claim, that you can actually get to your data as desired? Would you willingly equip your car with locks from a "Security Specialist" who refused to let you verify their locks worked?

* To a SP that, if you feel your business is better taken elsewhere, can hold your data hostage? Unless you keep a local copy of your data that you can access withOUT their Service (in which case you don't NEED their Service), they hold all the cards & you're now at the mercy of an Entity that has only ONE concern - their bottom line. Your data means *nothing* to them, and if you try to switch, they can dump it into the trash faster than you can request it back. Would you be willing to rent a car that, if you decided you didn't like & wished to rent a different one, were told that everything you had IN the car was now being held hostage until you paid the owner what-ever amount they felt like charging you for the items' return?

* To a SP that has been, can be, and will probably ALWAYS be, the most INsecure system on the internet? They are constantly having to patch all the bugs, security holes, and out-right coding-idiocy that consistently puts their own systems at risk, in the hopes that it will minimize the amount of "collateral damage" their customers suffer. Would you honestly be willing to entrust your family to be passengers in a vehicle from a manufacturer that was consistently having to recall their products to fix "safety issues"?

Think about it.

You're placing potentially business-critical information in the hands of a third party whom you can't audit, can't bargain with if you decide to change Service Providers, and can't EVER be sure that your data won't be stolen/sold to the first person/business who wants to take a shot at stealing/buying it.

It costs FAR less to host your own on-&-off-site data retention Servers, Disaster Recovery policies, & a Volume License Copy of MS Office.

The ROI for Covering Your Own Arse is much, MUCH less than the TCO for entrusting your business' future to the inept hands of Microsoft.

looks like the M$ Shitanic is sinking a little further every day. Perhaps they should start seriously thinking about 'doing an Apple' and just release a Unix based system that ACTUALLY WORKS. (For the record I'm a GNU/Linux user). I'm surprised that MS hasn't already just taken one of the *BSD codebases, ripped it off and turned it into Windows 7. Their biggest problem is the 20 years or so of legacy shit that they keep trying to retain some kind of backwards compatibility with.

PROTIP: Give Up.

They could easily make WINE perfectly compatible with XP and Vista and use it as it to support legacy apps until developers started writing software for the new OS. if only they were willing to open up the code......

Paris because she can inspect my stack any day.

MS software for rent and the viruses come free. Wow what a deal.