Not to be all conspiratorial, but I think it's been a while now since politicians were really in charge of this sort of thing.
Agreed. I would add, I doubt that anyone who's done the things you have to do to get elected at the national level wants to cross the folks that have access to potentially EVERY electronic piece of information generated by them, their family and staff in the last decade plus. Don't think for a minute that if someone like Feinstein got critical of their programs, some shady business dealings of her husband's or his associates wouldn't get laundered to FBI or others.
The Microsoft goal is to flush so much money down the drain it will become plugged up.
So soon they'll be swimming in their own crap?
The same way Windows 7 x64 made all Windows 7 installations and 32-bit programs worthless, huh?
Oh...wait...
I didn't say it would make 32-bit programs useless. Rather, I said it will make the 32-bit iOS devices useless when the OS leans heavily on new hardware capabilities that degrades user experience on old hardware, just like Apple has consistently done on iOS releases for a couple years now.
With your bare hands?!?