Say you log on to another Windows 9 PC using your login and password –not only will your data files be accessible from your cloud storage, but also the apps you use.
This whole thing with cloud based apps is trying to get you to pay a hundred a month on a regular basis like broadband providers receive.
They figure if we are dumb enough to continue to pay for the cost of broad band at the rates out there, why not lock us in for software and also control our data and files.
MS got to be too troublesome. My wife didn’t want a new computer but hated and bitched constantly about her eight year old out of date and glitchy windows machine. I bought her a Mac Air and after about an hour of fiddling and asking, she is now a happy computer user again.
I detest apple prices but at least the stuff works year after year. I have business computers that others maintain and pay for to use with business apps.
Microsoft aspires to be Google+.
“So if someone gets your log in and password they will have access to everything you have saved? What could go wrong with that?”
That is one of my concerns. Another is the push by MS to advertise use of the cloud (clod) storage for a year without charge. After that cloud storage will cost. I have a cloud at home that I disconnect from my computer when I connect to the internet. It’s a USB hard drive that holds sensitive financial information as well as that which is mundane. A look at my account in Outlook and I marvel at the number of attempts worldwide by those who would access an email account! I change the password often on a whim in an attempt to thwart access by lowlifes.
The directions we are being driven towards by MS, Google and Apple are not conducive to privacy. Live apps running in the background? BS!!! Never mind the N.S.A.
Live by the network ... Die by the network.