Thoughtcrime is bad
I thought that the DOJ anti-trust division had all been frozen in carbonite. Now, it appears that they are awake and may actually do some good. When they are done with this, there is a certain search engine they might want to look at...
Don't worry - It'll get strung out till the new administration drops the case because it isn't business friendly.
Yep – The corporate philosophy of “how do we take our new product and pigeon-hole it into existing products to force users to purchase/upgrade/buy extensions for those products ?” seems to be what will doom this product regardless of its “techniness”.
My guess is that the thing that will kill this device (like most MS devices that have to compete in a market they haven't cornered), is the fact that by the time the management, sales, and the lawyer teams get done "improving" the device, you won't be able to do anything on it without having to pay through the nose. Repeatedly. Forever.
So, even if the device ends up being a marvel of technology (which seems unlikely given the MS mobile paradigm), it will end up being locked behind a walled garden, which is locked up in a castle, surrounded by a moat, filled with alligators, etc. Sorry, couldn't resist a little hyperbole.
It is. RTFA.
Hey kids - they already know everything they want about you. Unless you don't have a birth certificate, SSN, and/or drivers license. IMHO, if they want to do another roundup, the census data is only one of about a thousand data points on you.
They only way you can avoid this is if you are living on the lam, and then guess what, they are already looking for you...
Yes, this is definitely that kind of moment. Stupid beyond stupid turning a corner on sanity.
I’m betting people are going to jail for this.
The first time someone looked into a child’s bedroom through the laptop webcam, they sank their own battleship.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.