The shocking truth about the NSA and FBI access to Microsoft products such as Skydrive and Hotmail online accounts.

A new report shows that ‪#‎Microsoft‬ offered the ‪#‎NSA‬ direct access to #Outlook.com, ‪#‎Skype‬, ‪#‎SkyDrive‬ accounts. Microsoft has denied the accusations – What do you think, is this true? http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Offered-the-NSA-Direct-Access-to-Outlook-com-Skype-SkyDrive-Accounts-Report-367531.shtml. This could be true, this is part of the patriot Act and shows that the United States government does care about terrorism. But they are … Read more

Cloud based user accounts backup in Windows 8 Enterprise; how Linux could benefit from this sort of infrastructure.

I have just installed the Windows 8 Enterprise 90 day trial and first impressions are quite positive. After logging into Windows the first time using your Windows Live account your desktop is setup and then you are presented with a Metro interface. But when you format and re-install the operating system you only need to … Read more

Ubuntu 12.04 will have cloud focused design.

Ubuntu 12.04 released in 2012 will be focused more on the cloud and not old server hardware, according to the Ubuntu developers, even though “old server hardware” is running the cloud, obviously the meaning of this statement is that cloud storage will be used extensively and not local storage for the users files. You can … Read more