Windows Azure: The Cloud Is Inevitable
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Thanks for calling me a lovely lady. My avatar is Amanda Tapping (Colonel Carter). Myself I am a retired Naval Captain (1986). I choose Colonel Carter for my avatar for the following reasons:
1. She is a very lovely lady.
2. She is very smart (PhD in Astro Physic.)
3. She is battle harden
4. She is very easy on the eyes.
My kind of Woman. . .
Oh, I am a Male. . .
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Make The Providers Liable
If the providers were liable for every problem that can occur (except for malware on your PC) they would soon stop pushing this.
This nonsense would vanish, if they got fined $1B every time your data:
- Got corrupted
- Was stolen
- Was accessed/viewed without authorisation
- Unavailable
Of course that isn't going to happen in the US (and as a result, nowhere else as well). 
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"To the Cloud" promoted in MS photo sharing/editing commercial
The internet will be renamed, make no mistake.
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What is going to happen when windows crashes.
Are we going to have to reboot the internet.
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I was lucky enough to speak to Caspar Bowden Chief Privacy Adviser for Microsoft's Europe Division at a recent convention held by the Open Rights Group. I put this question to him:
With cloud computing being the "next big thing" how long do you think it will be before our data is no longer secure once it all gets onto a Microsoft server?"
although he didn't answer my question, I did get this out of him. "It depends on what context you mean it in, do you mean from hackers, the police, or others? Microsoft takes these concerns very seriously, Microsoft plan to set up several regional data centres, and if an individual or company asks for their data to only be stored in that centre then it will be."
Now to me, that sounds like Microsoft saying "To be perfectly honest, your data is going into the cloud whether you like it or not.
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