Rebuilding windows for the 21st century

And MS doesn't care one bit where you are located! Their goal with Cloud services is aimed mainly at the corporate world not so much the private home user to begin with. You know where that leaves the rest of us.

As far as photo storage online you can take a look at any social network to see how people plaster personal and family photos regularly without regard to who out there sees them too! While each of those networks does offer one option for not displaying things openly with the privacy settings it still is exposure that can make you wonder about who sees what with Cloud type storage.

Yet you could also say similar things about WLM with Live blog writer, movie maker, Photo album, and of course SkyDrive! Cloud takes the idea much further in dealing with large volumes of data however over just 1 or 2tb at best.

How many times has one read wheir/where a cloud site has been hacked but no corporate or customer information was at risk. Does anybody really believe that. The hacker didn't do the hack job just to turn off the coffee pot in the employees lounge.
That's like believing that all weather satellites are weather satellites. For a home user or small business to me a external storage device under the owner operators control is best. For large corporate or government agency a in house I.T. department with proper equipment is the proper way. Many clouds are in countries that you wouldn't trust with your car keys let alone a few billion dollars worth of information.

That sums things up nicely! Now have a look at one such security breach pointed out last year regarding GoGrid Security Breach

And have a look at something else besides seeing the coffee pot turned off in the employee's lounge. Try actual motivations pointed out there.

1. The method utilized by the suspect to gain access has been identified and remediated.
2. It appears that the suspect’s sole motive was to acquire free services from us. We have no evidence suggesting that the suspect was targeting customer infrastructure or payment cards.
3. We have no indication that any customer information was shared with any other unauthorized parties or that there has been unauthorized use of any cardholder’s data.

I don't think the perp was out to steal a candy bar out of a vending machine!

I'm with LittleJay on the issue of rural areas and have just read in a newsletter re the impending demise of PC's (am I allowed to ref that article?) and it makes for some very depressing reading.

Myself am absolutely against those mobile type set ups they are for me a toy by any other name and besides if they break and it could be some thing as simple as a cap letting go it becomes a throw away item.

No I want my PC's and will hang on with all I have got.

While I just got in a Syvania Smart book with the embedded 7 and found that to be limited as well. Since the OS is embedded and the hard drive is what 2gb? and you use SD Cards to suppliement it is nothing more then a web surfer you carry around.

For a family member who was recently but no longer on dial-up of all things and now can't get online I will be shopping around for 7 Tablet PC to help out. Both are for upcoming birthdays while they certainly "will not" replace the desktop. The family member needs to get VoIP since one phone company came in and messed up the phone lines for the building! Dump dial-up, Dump dsl, go cable!

Here I have how many portables besides the one cell phone which does have texting but...? None! I do have two 7 builds however! "Two desktops! Did you hear that? MS" No touchsided lopsided upside down OS installed!

Now getting back to mobile technologies that's precisely what it is for "MOBILITY"! To change the main OS you would use to strictly mobile and abandon the desktop concepts isn't actually going forward any. No in fact that be would going in a very limited hindsight direction.

Now you add Cloud hazards on top of the list and where do you end up?

Yeah Night Hawk annoys the jeez out of me seeing my son and soon to be daughter in law with those wretched things and all the while he has a $3K build sitting idle plus two laptops.

I reckon they are filthy dirty things at very least - fancy using one after a nose picker has been at it?

Makes me feel ill just like those characters who lick their fingers turning pages of paper

Hum pincushion I guess if you had enough machines working on it anything could e cracked as they did per the Enigma machine during WW2.

I know that was a slightly less a high tech set up than now but the mere torrent of malware that sneeks out and in is testament to those who really want to get at you - or me:)

To quote my late Mum "where there is a will there is a way"