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My experience during corporate layoffs seems to lean toward letting the senior people go. Whether contractor or employee, doesn't matter. Twice I saw them ask 30+ year employees to retire and, when they said no, let them go within a week.

I've had loved ones go through it. This sentiment sums it up perfectly.

I created an application password to use for the iPhone app. After I tried to authenticate it told me that I couldn't use application passwords and to use my normal password+token.

I'm using 2-factor authentication. Couldn't create an application password. Had to use my main pwd+token which is only good for 30 days. Shouldn't they allow the use of a 2-factor application password for an iOS app?

Perhaps I should have said I work for a large educational institution. Microsoft was free and Google was going to cost around $200k.

This could give "Santa Claus is coming to town" a whole new meaning.

"It all spells trouble for MS in the medium term"

Only if Google increases their level of support. I work at a large business and we spoke with both Google and Microsoft. Though I'm a Google fanboy, I'll admit that the level of support from Microsoft is currently much better than Google. Microsoft's cost of implementation was also lower.

I forward my google account to my google apps. My main issue is that all my contacts are neatly organized in google apps and it's hard to use services like Google+ or Google Voice when they pull contacts from my gmail account.

"...there will be room for a computer override of sorts to stop amateur pilots tipping over"

I don't know. I still think there's too much of a risk in the whole thing being top heavy due to the blades being below the rider. Envisioning being at 5,000 ft. and all of the sudden looking at the world upside down while rocketing to the ground.