Not happening. Sorry this has gone on long enough.
Closed both Microsoft accounts and cancelled my MSDN and AP subscription renewals.
I do a big chunk of my work on a CentOS desktop machine already. There's not much of a push to chuck everything in an 8.1 VM and start moving it all over. The MSDN licenses I need persist past the sub so that's enough for me.
I've been on the verge of doing this for a couple of months already anyway for ref.
Edit: Also, I'm really not happy about the pro-Microsoft spin all over the media recently. It appears to be covering up a number of nasty changes behind the scenes and lacking in critical analysis.
Edit 3: does anyone know of a decent 4G modem for a laptop, preferably one that works in Linux. I can then skip my phone as a tether and use a dumbphone.
Yes I agree entirely; you're 100% right. The only 3rd party service I now rely on personally is my domain registrar and an IMAP box which is unavoidable to participate in the world now. I've closed most of my online accounts with services over the last year already. I moved my code from github to local fossil instances about 3 months ago as well. Everything I use is hosted by reputable companies in the EU.
I'm not touching Android. Too many bad experiences there about a year ago for me.
The best solution is to run Replicant on a compatible device.
Short of that, you can just load CyanogenMod or another AOSP-based ROM on most devices. It's entirely possible to use Android without the proprietary Google Apps bundle.
That's a great deal. I've been looking for an email setup for the family that doesn't cost a fortune and this is the best I've seen. I am tired of running my own mail stack, what a PITA.
Indeed. Works out at £12 a year for me including domain. I tried loads of shared hosting before and it was all expensive and unreliable. You get 5 free boxes per domain as well which is enough.
If they did some static hosting included that'd be nice too but I can't complain.
"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:
1.comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;
2.protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;
3.operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or
4.protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services - however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law enforcement."
Definitely close your accounts if you want to protect your data, no fault there :) But make sure you know that this article doesn't actually tell an accurate picture.
It doesn't explicitly call out 4G support so you will have to work backwards.
fyi: some laptop firmware, such as thinkpads, have a whitelist of supported WWAN cards. If you can't find a suitable internal card you can use a USB dongle without restriction.
Closed both Microsoft accounts and cancelled my MSDN and AP subscription renewals.
I do a big chunk of my work on a CentOS desktop machine already. There's not much of a push to chuck everything in an 8.1 VM and start moving it all over. The MSDN licenses I need persist past the sub so that's enough for me.
I've been on the verge of doing this for a couple of months already anyway for ref.
Edit: Also, I'm really not happy about the pro-Microsoft spin all over the media recently. It appears to be covering up a number of nasty changes behind the scenes and lacking in critical analysis.
Edit 2: Proof: http://imgur.com/a/ZYWZM
Edit 3: does anyone know of a decent 4G modem for a laptop, preferably one that works in Linux. I can then skip my phone as a tether and use a dumbphone.