Cloud software and the loss of autonomy · Proposed air date:
A temporary antivirus-update outage leads Dr. Dave to question a future in which office, accounting and tax software exist only on somebody else's server. He accepts that hosted tools have benefits but does not want the personal computer's autonomy taken away when a service outage can block urgent work.
This excerpt runs from 7:34.530 to 8:33.950 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2008-08-30. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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