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  • Y2k was not fear mongering. There were a great many systems, in industrial finance and infrastructure applications that definitely needed to be addressed. You know, the things that keep modern infrastructures running. Of course there were consumer facing companies that took advantage of it, but that was small in comparison.

    It ended up not being a disaster, because it was taken seriously.









  • Exactly. It’s very useful in a managed environment. It’s performance overheads suck though.Way too much CPU usage.

    But it should not be part of Windows, only office 365 or as an optional 3rd party service.

    Same story with icloud on Apple and Google Drive on Android.

    No free version of a paid cloud service should be included in any OS. It should require a separate opt-in sign up. Have we not learnt anything from the Microsoft antitrust cases.