Microsoft's Cameron Evans raises an intriguing question about BYOD policies: Why would parents - most of whom are footing the bill for their children's personal smartphones, notebooks and tablets - let college IT staffs put anything on students' personal devices? "There is a human threshold on how much friction people want to experience on a personally owned device," notes Evans, national technology officer for Microsoft Education, in a recent post to his blog, Higher Innovation. "I would argue that the threshold is significantly lower on personally owned devices than on a device owned and ...