Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft
<i>This is a financial disaster waiting to happen. Microsoft is oblivious if it is not doing something to divorce itself from the NSA.<p>Apple, on the other hand, could have come out smelling like a rose, but following the death of Steve Jobs, who apparently refused to play ball with the NSA, it stupidly jumped on board to join the PRISM club.</i><p>According to the Prism slides, it really looks so:<p><pre><code>   "Dates when Prism collection began for each provider

   Microsoft 9/11/07
   Yahoo 3/12/08
   Google 1/14/09
   Facebook 6/3/09
   PalTalk  12/07/09
   YouTube 9/24/10
   Skype 2/6/11
   AOL 3/31/11
   Apple (added Oct 2012)"
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Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011.<p>If it's true, it's one reason more to deeply admire him.<p>And can you just imagine how much more sales Apple would get now for not being on that list?