Microsoft has recently introduced Cortana Analytics —an Azure-based service that allows users to perform predictive analysis through natural language, by just asking a question either via text, or by speech. While I believe Cortana Analytics to be amazing and I look forward not only to use it, but to implement it to our customers, I am concerned about the dangers imposed by relying on this technology. And no, Microsoft is not the one at fault this time. It is the users who I am worried about.
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Cloud Computing is a information technology (IT) principle in which system resources (e.g. hardware, software) are available as a service over the Internet by a provider. [Wikipedia]
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Cloud storage – The good, the bad and the ugly
During the release of Windows 8.1 public preview last month, Microsoft announced that SkyDrive will be even more pervasive in Windows 8.1, not only being the default save location for users’ documents and pictures, but also storing system settings and user profile.
More recently, Forbes reported on a story that Dropbox is moving beyond the typical cloud storage business model of file sync, to a broader data store API that will allow people to sync contact lists, settings game sales and all other sorts of data.
While I welcome innovation, I will stay away from public cloud storage as much as possible. And here is why.
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