@cstross that is what he does. He promises things, puts people he employs in a positon of trying to make it work, doesn't deliver, and the cycle starts again.

And some people chose to believe that *this time* it will be true.

Wow, Microsoft just automatically enabling unencrypted uploading of people's files to their servers, as a "backup" measure. And then disabling the "feature" can mean losing the files. Yikes.
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html (via @rysiek)

Honestly, bless the open source community(ies). We are so fortunate to have enough qualified people (and often companies supporting them) that make it possible to have a viable, usable alternative that is not beholden to the interests of corporate overlords.