Microsoft launches Advanced Threat Analytics

Not really. Firstly, it's massive, massive overkill as such people are likely to have a very small user base and a single location for files. It's not much good trying to detect anomalous patterns of behaviour amongst your users and network if that's basically two people and a couple of laptops.

Secondly, even though this flags up data for review, you still need to be competent to make use of that. The average family are not going to know what to do with if some software flags up an alert that user account X suddenly has a new pattern of scanning and copying files from Y. A competent sysadmin would, but not your typical home users.

Though really the first one makes the second academic, anyway.

Re: The key question is ..

1) Surface

2) Nokia

3) this

4) X-Box

5) other non-Windows acquisitions.

If they took all of that money and instead spent it fixing Windows, we'd all be better off.