[jprete]

I'm usually somewhat understanding of this kind of thing, but this should be a local app only doing local things, not validating content with the cloud for safety. Not only does that mean that MS is putting a filter gate on your own content - not only does that make MS a natural target for both law and IP enforcement even though the content is local - but it also means MS can harvest all of the data if they so choose.

[flir]

my thoughts were similar.

they want to fisher-price their cloud services? ok, fair enough it's their hardware.

mobile phone apps? well I don't like it, but that ship has sailed.

my own personal computer? oh hell no. I don't like where this is heading at all.

[CatWChainsaw]

Controlling what is possible to do on a machine means that the future is guaranteed to proceed according to how Microsoft wants it. Forget zombie companies, we'll have deity companies - all-powerful, merciless, and they will never die.