Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Beware the microsoft cloud? Date: 23 May 2016 15:02:06 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net XY7li+079LhMR8A3JYfnqQW0ZivRsecwIdf672aGX2niBrZSYj Cancel-Lock: sha1:lT0jZO5u2PlubagpItgqIrTLt1k= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:163854 On 2016-05-23, jmfbahciv wrote: > J. Clarke wrote: >> In article , See.above@aol.com >> says... >>> >>> Huge wrote: >>> > On 2016-05-21, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >>> >> In article , >>> >> "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" writes: >>> >>> Has microsoft a reputation for doing something for nothing? >>> >>> >>> >>> How soon after they've everyone locked in to the cloud will >>> >>> they start charging heftily for it? >>> >> >>> >> Anyone using cloud needs to keep an eye on the current and future >>> >> exit costs from their supplier. >>> > >>> > Among about a zillion other things. >>> >>> How long will it be before the pendumlum swings from outsourcing >>> operations to doing one's own again. >> >> I suspect it's going to be a while. Eventually a cloud provider is >> going to go under and take a Fortune 100 company with them and the rest >> will figure out that trustiung some startup to maintain your mission- >> critical data is really stupid. >> > Women in the knitting group I attend are using the cloud to store > all of their family pictures. Historians and archaeologists aren't > going to have much paper and things to mine. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/18/code_spaces_destroyed/ -- Today is Pungenday, the 70th day of Discord in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.