Posts by Dethstar 5 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2010
If you can afford to do that. Your not really the sort of person that has any significant IP or client data to consider. With many clients these days dropping vendors or services or key products because they compromise their data through the use of cloud based services. This could be the ultimate violation of many client/vendor contracts common in some environments.
Great article. Pretty much sums up the thoughts of most people I know. We don't really need anything past Windows 7.
We certainly did nothing to deserve Windows 8 though some they really had to buy a new laptop were grateful for 8.1 to replace 8 and all wish they could get the time back on wasted pilots of Windows 8.
However, its been a long time since Microsoft created an OS anyone was really excited about other than their marketing department. I think many of those of my generation who remember a time before the war on privacy, remember that Microsoft actually started it. Look where the direction they lead took us?
Dalliances with trying to put a live always on Camera and Mic in every living room, dodgy DRM, VOIP which actually made the, until then, relatively banal concept of a telephone conversion between 2 people (even in the same building) an amazing achievement.
Now they are trying to give me something free....... The company which try to charge a user for addressing licensing issues they created or day 1 product issues..
One has to wonder why and who is really paying and how. I am highly suspicious. When 8 was released and I developed a strange deaf condition when asked to sign any requisitions involving products which came with it.
Wondering if this is going to finally be an upgrade we could live with in terms of a functioning business OS or a toy for consumer machines paid for by the data which will be collected on our business and the individuals in it. Unlike Windows 8. All reports seem to indicate the product itself is sound and unlike Windows 8, is actually usable and will not see productivity dive deeper than the Marianas Trench. So, what is the kicker here? Will MS be using this "upgrade" as a Trojan horse for the mass stealing of corporate data on the basis of individual licensing agreements or are we able to secure our business and keep our data safe without keeping MS out completely?
Forgive my cynicism but with the sort of previous MS has, the prospect of installing another unknown from MS feels like letting Reggie Kray in to look after the kids and clean my gold brick collection.
I will be waiting for those wiser than me to pull apart the OS and tell me what exactly is going on no matter how long it takes.
Agree. This is very similar the plan for the net generation of computer game consoles. Much has been mentioned of the attempt to stop users buying and selling games and other software. The solution is to make the console "always on" i.e always connected to the internet. Then ensure that only limited content from the original product is accessible to the secondary and tertiary market, effectively achieving the same thing as actively trying to stop the sale of the product.
This is a trend that is getting worse and worse. Google are just following the trend consumers have allowed by voting with their wallets at every step along the way.
I have sold these services as well as more generic data centre hosting. Trust me, we can make any managed service ROI look good. The question is what happens after you bought it and who is going to be the first poster child for the already overdue massive and public failure of one of these services.
The devil is in the delivery.
Personally I have a vested interest in cloud based computing selling to our client base. But would I make the same decision if I was a CIO. Absolutely not if it was from any of the five biggest companies aggresively selling it.
One IT director I know of in the financial sector made the truest comment I have heard in this whole debate. "You would have to go a long way to convince me that anyone is going to prioritize my data more highly than I do or look after it as good as I will."
Having been inside companies selling it, I can say with all honesty that he was absolutely right. He is worth the value of his contract with them. But to him, his data is absolutely central to all they do. Its not even ine the same ballpark.
For all that they are unelected (much like the UK house of Lords) these guys do a better job of representing the interests of the average person than politicians who have been bought and sold several times over by the media companies driving the ACTA. Being unelected gives a certain freedom to do what is right and make common sense decisions rather than dealing in short term political sound bites like most European politicians.
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