New Microsoft CEO

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Nadella previously held the position of Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group.

Since joining the company in 1992, Nadella has spearheaded major strategy and technical shifts across the company's portfolio of products and services, most notably the company's move to the cloud and the development of one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world supporting Bing, Xbox, Office and other services. During his tenure overseeing Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, the division outperformed the market and took share from competitors.

BING. OFFICE (shifted to the cloud). XBOX LIVE. CLOUD SERVICES/COMPUTING. This is the future of Microsoft!

 
Bowielee

Bowielee

On the one hand, I love what cloud services can offer. Access anywhere, contiguous backup over multiple systems, etc...

On the other, I see the potential to move software licenses to being monthly services rather than one time purchases.

If they plan on making office more like, say Steam, then I'm OK with it. If they offer free online backup and everything, I'm also OK with that.

Where I start running into problems are when they require online access to use software (Seriously, I use Word on my laptop ALL THE TIME without an internet connection), or if they plan on charging monthly service fees to use their software.

We'll see what the future holds.
 
strawman

strawman

Yeah, I have a hard time caring about MS anymore, other than I have a brother in law working there.

Still use their software every single day of my life though.[DOUBLEPOST=1391546462,1391546393][/DOUBLEPOST]
Bowielee said:
On the one hand, I love what cloud services can offer. Access anywhere, contiguous backup over multiple systems, etc...
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The second dot in your elipsis refers to "government access is an easy secret warrant away"
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I just wonder how hackable MS-Cloud is... their OS, Office Suite, E-Mail and Free E-Mail is so riddled with security loopholes, I don't see the cloud as safe at all.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

sixpackshaker said:
I just wonder how hackable MS-Cloud is... their OS, Office Suite, E-Mail and Free E-Mail is so riddled with security loopholes, I don't see the cloud as safe at all.
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You're assuming I a) would put anything sensitive on their cloud, and b) wouldn't encrypt the bejeezus out of it before I uploaded it if I did.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

There are a number of ways to encrypt things. There is file-level encryption, which is basically just like making a .ZIP or .RAR archive, except that instead of shrinking your file, it encrypts it (note: If you are going to encrypt AND compress, make sure to compress BEFORE you encrypt). Usually this sort of encryption can also be applied to folders (again, just like .ZIP/.RAR). This way, you just scramble the stuff you want protected and everything else behaves as normal.

Some forms of folder-level encryption let you set up a specially protected "vault" folder. Anything that goes into that folder automatically gets encrypted. Procedure-wise, it operates a lot like the way Dropbox works, except that instead of synching what's in the folder with what's on the cloud, it just makes sure that anything that goes into the folder gets scrambled.

Then there is disk-level encryption. Usually this is entirely transparent to the user, since most entire-disk methods operate within the encrypted space so it is transparent to the OS as well. It's only when someone attempts to access your drive without booting to the OS that this becomes useful.

--Patrick
 
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