News Summary

• Dan Gookin, the original For Dummies author, is now the mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
• He’s begun weaning himself off Microsoft and what he calls an increasingly subscription-based, cloud-based,.
• His concern isn’t literally that the city has forfeited legal ownership of its records.
• What happens if the vendor is hacked, or the city decides to switch?
• Can it get all its data back?