Yup, I can see this being abused by our government, HIPAA be damned.

Not gonna lie, I bought one off of there a few years ago.

Not going to say where I work, but if I moved my company would adjust my income to match that countries income levels.

Work for a large software company and i'm not allowed to have my phone up to a certain point for "security reasons" yet here I am posting to slashdot.

You sound like a man that got burned by bing weather

I feel yeah, I looked at bing weather on my windows phone and it said no rain today. "Cool," I say and take the motorcycle to work. It's been raining almost 4 hours now, plus flood warnings are being issued, and looking on weather underground this is not going to end anytime soon. I'm driving home in the rain.

Thank's bing weather.

Sounds about the same as the Windows Phone store.

Disagree. An example: Windows Mobile 10 was "finalized" months ago, but manufacture BLU is still struggling to release a Windows 10 rom for their Win HD device. It's unfinished and buggy as hell.

Both companies are known for their data collection/mining of their user base, so this concerns me a bit. I know the article says the cable will be managed by Telxius but I wonder how much influence Microsoft and Facebook will have over that management? They are calling the cable "open" but they proceed to speak about how much benefit it will be to the Azure platform and possible Facebook. Will MS and FB traffic always have priority over everyone else? I just don't trust this whole endeavor because I really don't trust either of these two companies anymore.

You mean something like this.

I understand why Microsoft is doing this, but I just don't see this ending well for them. I would set temp passwords for new hires to things like $$Znxa1543 and they would almost murder me. The users would complain, the managers would complain, everyone would just complain that the passwords were too hard. For some reason some users just can't remember anything more complex than something like "May-2016" or some such like that. All Microsoft is going to do is force these people to set passwords they will never remember and wind up with millions of locked accounts and millions of unhappy people.

Lot's of Microsoft online stuff ties into Azure AD, like Office 365 for example. And, I sync my office local AD directory to Azure AD for our O365 so I'm kind of curious how this will effect synced AD databases.

If I had any mod points I'd give them all to you

The end of the article:

Translation: We don't know what we did, bet we did it first.

On another note, such a shame. I still wish they would dump that secure boot crap and let the hobbyist/modding community go to town like they did on WP7. IMHO I think that would do more to attract developers than trying to wave their unified development platform around. Take down the walled garden and let the hobbyist and modders go to town customizing and hacking roms once again.

BRING BACK HERE MAPS!!! That was one of the best maps before MS bought Nokia and when they made it part of WP it was still really good. Now they are phasing HERE maps/drive out with the Microsoft Maps or Bing maps or whatever it is. Really, really bad. I tried using the MS Maps the other day and it was like when Apple dropped Google maps with their own in house maps, that crap took me everywhere but where I actually wanted to go. I actually had to find where I was going by using the good ol fashioned method it was so bad. 0/10 will print directions from Google Maps on the PC before using MS maps again.

Good for you because the only service we use at my work that I can use on my WP is Office365. I have inquired from all other services about when I can expect a WP app and I am told, "Never." Same with my bank and for virtually any other nonwork service I pay for and use except Netflix and Paypal. I don't watch netflix on the phone and there is only one store I occasionally visit that will let me pay with paypal from my phone. So my WP is pretty much worthless except for checking emails, which there is an awesome bug where I click on the email in the notification center it takes me to a random email in a random synced account. Good times when checking emails in the office with coworkers looking at your screen, I call it email russian roulette.

Honestly, Microsoft doesn't seem that far from being the next cryptolocker. Microsoft has been hinting at a subscription based model ever since Windows 8 came out, if they happen to move to that and you don't pay for a few months, what happens? It seems very easy to lock you out and force you to pay what you own to get back into your system.