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If you think Dropbox is bad, what about the recent preview of Office 2013 that stores all business documents in the cloud by default? (I haven't been able to find any mention of client-side encryption.)

Non-US governments should seriously consider anything from sales bans to education in order to protect their citizens' privacy and business secrets.

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You mean the preview that isn't licensed for production use? That Microsoft warns you away from using for anything useful? That preview?

Isn't the point that the released version is expected to behave the same way?

If you buy the cloud version, you get the cloud stuff. There will be a standalone version that works like it's always worked.

Why do people keep saying such things regarding previews and demos?

He is not complaining about a bug. Nor does he complain about a not ready for primetime feature in some early development version. Those are expected.

He is complaining about how a feature is implemented. Features such as this, rarely, if ever, change between preview/demo and final release. If it does change, it will be mostly because of the outcry, not because it was supposed to change in the final all along.

I am using the Customer Preview without the 365 cloud storage. It is not mandatory in my experience; you can just chose to not log in with a WLID.

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