@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

It's actually decently straightforward. Just like signing into any product to use. If you are signing in as someone else, you need to be aware of the licensing and limitations and violations that might come with that. MS Office isn't unique in any way here. You pay per user, it actually makes it easier than it used to be.

I meant in general.

Like I use my work account for everything, which I know is a no-no. (And probably the cause of half of this.)

But I have a OneDrive account under it, a ODfB account, a Microsoft account, my XBOX account. Know what I mean?

It could just be me. Probably, probably is.

Oh, the issue is too many accounts from one vendor. Yes, I get that. Although they are a massive vendor and those are mostly unique services. ODfB and OneDrive can't be the same, obviously, one is the office, one is home.

@Minion-Queen said:

@Dashrender
We as partners were told it was going to stop being unlimited.

Wow.. just WOW!

Wonder i that is the one my user got. Didn't go that far to find out. just nuked it from orbit.

That is the biggest question, really. And also, if it was saved as a DOCX or an ODT from LibreOffice.

At this low of pricing, I doubt they will be giving any discounts.

Great stuff, eager to test it.

Yup, monarchies are surprisingly decent.

I wonder how much this will impact CPU investment in the next 24 months as the needs of the cloud computing world start to scale back temporarily.

Have you guys at ownCloud looked to see if there are significant changes in memory for these speed boosts? Like is more or less memory being consumed?

I think it is time to start sending sweaters to hell. They'll need it!

@Dashrender said:

@Jason said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

I can see a case for DC OEM, the price difference between OEM and VL is only $1300ish... prob not enough to justify losing the VL benefits.

Not even that much of a difference with our EA.

You're an outside case here, very few of us besides you are large enough to consider let alone have an EA.

Although to consider the DC OEM useful, you'd need to be pretty large in most cases.

Dell has there fair share of quality control issues with laptops and and desktops anymore. The laptops have been plagued by motherboard isues.

In many ways that is where Linux shines.... fewer apps.

And SO tiny!!

That's more like what I was thinking. Multiuser Notepad is really what we like to use.

@Reid-Cooper said:

Better than working directly with a hamster back end.

You have a point... but the front end can be just as unpleasant. It's designed to be all nice and cute,.. but when you try to interact with it,..it can really cause aggravation and choice words

I find this one a little surprising. When I worked on Wall St. we were rolling out containers in 2006. If these banks are just talking about "looking into" containers now, they are a full decade behind where we were.

http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/apple-caters-open-source-switching-swift-apache-20-licens

If it was purely an issue of "on by default" I think it would be one thing. But because it is often, it appears, enforced as unavoidable private company data collection pushed through school policy then it becomes a much bigger issue. That means that government, albeit local government, is basically selling the right to student monitoring to a private entity that has promised not to collect that very data targeted at students contractually.

The issue when schools require Chromebooks be used in a certain way means that the students are not given the option not to be monitored. "By default" is one thing and potentially problematic on its own. But if schools are requiring that students submit to being tracked by a private company without oversight that's a much, much bigger issue.

It is a chain reaction: school is a requirement, parents and students are not given a choice about the tools that they use, tools are enabled to track students, no opt out.... students are simply required to be tracked. It's not a "direct" situation, it's big brother via a chain of circumstances and rules that result in the same thing. A serious situation needing attention for sure. Thankfully it looks like the EFF is on the case.