Granted most individuals may not be concerned with these intrusions-by-design, but businesses dealing with sensitive information - or who simply have a vested interest in security - may see this as a reason to forgo the Microsoft Office suite altogether, which is one of Microsoft's few stable revenue streams after all these years.
Exactly. I work for defense attorneys, and they deal with a huge amount of private, protected, highly-confidential data. I honestly don't know how we can keep implementing Microsoft solutions... have been debating switching everything over to Mac.
businesses actually can get a very different deal when it comes to data "sovereignty" issues.
it's really consumers who have the least leverage. If you want an arrangement where your data is encrypted with keys that you store in a tamer proof hardware module you can. It's priced differently, but you certainly can have that. (It's not all that expensive in the scheme of things.)
