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You are of course free to disagree with the author, but I hardly think that makes it biased. Logging in with any password is objectively a pretty embarrassing security lapse. I'm not aware of any problems like that with Live Mesh. Or even, really, with any online Microsoft products.

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I do agree on the fact that it is totally embarassing for Dropbox, and I do not either recall a similar issue with Microsoft, which does not make it safe. DEP / ASLR mechanism have been "easily" bypass several times this year, which to me is also embarassing. But the fact that this issue happened with Dropbox does not mean that it will again, and I'm pretty sure that it will make security one of their top priority. I do believe that going to Microsoft for better security is an odd move.

Again, you're making this point based on heresay. Of all the Dropbox competitors and cloud storage solutions, I'd tend to trust Microsoft the most because they will likely have the security experts employed to audit their products. Or simply that because they are Microsoft, 3rd-party security firms will investigate the security of Live Mesh.

And yet there are a lot of active exploits targetting Windows. If your logic was sound, given that Windows is by far the most used system it should also be the most secure: then again I invite you to research the subject, security reports often show that it is more vulnerable than most linux/unixes. I find 7 to be an acceptable OS (and I still use it everyday) but blindly beliving that Microsoft ecosystem is secure because it is Microsoft's is a mistake.

It's not blindly believing Microsoft to be a better ecosystem. This has nothing to do with the OS. This is about the fact that they have a whole network of professionals who are more likely than a startup to audit their systems and keep it safe.

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