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• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2010-07-28 18:01:08

  Government workers may wish to look at opennebula.org.

• twitter

  2010-07-28 17:54:08

  It is amusing to hear Microsoft boosters FUD Google or anyone else about security and privacy because they are the worst at both. The Windows EULA gives Microsoft the right to inspect and delete every file on your computer. This is something Microsoft people dismiss with insults, such as "You must be paranoid to think we will use that," or outright lies like, "There is no mechanism to do so." The Vista family of software all have file indexing and encrypted communications back to Microsoft, so it is spyware of the worst kind that will not be deployed by any sane business or government office. Worse, Microsoft's dreadful security record shows that no one is able to keep outsiders out of a Windows network. Information stored on a modern Windows network will be collected by Microsoft and others. Microsoft suffers from the same problems every other Windows user does and is unable to keep the data they collect to themselves. People, especially government offices, should host their own clouds, but the data is far safer with Google than it is in Microsoft's dishonest and incompetent hands.

• Needs Sunlight

  2010-07-28 20:46:15

  Nearly all defense of Microsoft products, people and ideas is built around ad hominem fallacies. These proxy attacks against Apple and Google are no different, just a specialized variant known as tu quoque.