It's not like anyone owes you anything. It's their money - they don't have an obligation to give it to you.

If you don't want to jump through the hoops any particular venture capitalist is requiring, then don't. No one is forcing you to do anything. You can always just forge ahead with your own money.

For some reason your post reminded me of the DVD anti-piracy warning from the IT Crowd.

iCloud Keychain needed to happen. Didn't MobileMe subscribers have that functionality in the past? In any case it is most welcome news.

iCloud iWork sounds interesting... but what's really missing from iWork is document sharing along the lines of Dropbox or Google Drive, at least if it's supposed to be more than just a toy. I suppose that could be part of the updates, but I didn't see anything along those lines mentioned in Engadget's live blog. Even for home use, though - I occasionally want to share documents with my wife. The current "email it to her" solution is straight out of 1995...

It's pretty obvious many/most of the people here on either side of this argument haven't bothered to educate themselves on the subject - so responding with insults is all they can do.

But, at least in this scenario, the government has to make sure he stays alive.

If your sibling felt compelled to make such a diagram, it's pretty obvious you're a blazing nerd.

Oh come on. Did people shun Microsoft when Ballmer did the Sweaty Monkey Dance or threaten to "fucking kill Google"?

No one of consequence cares when Linus Torcalds acts like a petulant child - if they have an interest in Linux, they're more concerned about support availability and duration.

Not mine - I encrypt my tax returns before sending them in.

Maybe this doesn't matter to others, for some reason; but -

The call metadata they're collecting also includes the location the call originated from and the location of the person receiving the call. I think that's a much bigger deal, since it means they are effectively tracking everyone who uses a cell phone.

I have no doubt Microsoft will find some convoluted method specifically to allow our soldiers and sailors to use these consoles when they don't have Internet access.

And I'm also sure some soft news journalist at CNN or FOX will write a story about what a wonderful thing Microsoft has done for the Boys in Blue, detailing every step in the convoluted solution to demonstrate to what lengths they went and how much money they spent coming up with said solution - all without ever questioning the core issues that created the problem in the first place.

You wouldn't know it from my Slashdot name, though.

My real name is #!/bin/sh

Yeah, McAfee's fingerprints are all over the place...

I can only speak for what I see at my university; but I don't think this is really as prevalent anymore. I think too many schools got burned by experiences such as the one you refer to.

Now Microsoft does still try to do this, but they don't have the leverage they once did. On our campus Microsoft did schmooze the previous president to get Live included as an offering; but with the students Gmail is king and Dropbox is queen. The only people I know using Outlook and the other MS cloud options are some staff members for whom it's been the only email they've ever known.

But I couldn't find the MacBook Pro running Windows 8 via Boot Camp.

Many US universities already subscribe to services that do exactly this - usually through the school's library.