Former top Microsoft exec says world is over the PC

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Originally Posted by sykozis

From a security standpoint....cloud computing is the worst idea the industry has ever conceived. Unfortunately, the industry has more control than the consumer. The HD-DVD vs Blu-ray "war" proved that. Based on stand-alone players, HD-DVD outsold Blu-ray but, because Sony used a Blu-ray drive in their playstations, the facts were skewed enough for HD-DVD to die. In the end, it makes little difference what consumers want, so long as the industry wants it bad enough.

For start, HD-DVD failed because it had TONS of bad publicity with the whole ant-piracy issue and the major flaw in its encryption key. One thing we can agree on is piracy holds a huge place in the industry even though the industry fights it hard. RIAA and MIAA know this all to well and so does M$ who have tried hard each time and failed. Where as M$'s roots are from underground coding to begin with, and they make use of this fact every way you look (kinect fits in well here).

The difference here is M$ knows their users well enough that they know they don't like "too much" control from big corps. This will drive the next phone i think. The first thing people did with iphone is "jail" break it. Google used their endless coffer to profit off of it right away.
But like we're getting at here is the network between user owned PC and user owned phone is going to drive M$ into the market.


Cloud based computing (which this guy in said article preaches) is going to utterly fail. Just like HD-DVD, just like Sony's disc based protection etc etc. I just don't see people, in a fear of ACTA/corperate control based internet, giving that much control over to a company ever- even if early adopters(rich people) jumped on the ipad/iphone wagon.

Hopefully this delay is only caused by M$ not resorting to slave based labor to drive prices down.