Barack Obama BlackBerryYou may have heard by know that President Barack Obama is allowed to continue using his beloved BlackBerry for personal use and and must use Windows CE powered Sectra Edge for anything official.  Microsoft is suggesting, however, that President Obama drop is BlackBerry all togehter because of the Canadian security threat.

“You would be sending your data outside the country,” says Randy Siegel, a Microsoft enterprise mobile strategist who works on federal government projects. “We wouldn’t want the casual musings or official communications of the most important person in the world being intercepted by others.”

Is that the best Microsoft could come up with?

[Via WSJ]