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Personally I've always been slightly amazed that at no point in time did anyone at Microsoft think that making msn.com the default homepage for servers was a ba

Personally I've always been slightly amazed that at no point in time did anyone at Microsoft think that making msn.com the default homepage for servers was a bad idea.

jychang 6y ago
Hilariously, Microsoft production servers are also set to the MSN default homepage, even though most forests are firewalled off from the entire internet. So the homepage doesn't even load.
- giantDinosaur 6y ago
  Not loading is surely preferable.
  - netsharc 6y ago
    Didn't some ad server serving msn homepage managed to be exploited to serve malware to old IE versions. So the hapless admin who needs to download a file off the web (with no other browsers installed, and no firewall) would open IE and boom, exploit!
    - deadwing0 6y ago
      https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/01/msn-home-page-drops-more-malware-via-malvertising/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/01/msn-ho... Is this what you're referring to?
nabla9 6y ago
Personally I feel it's completely understandable. Microsoft has huge market power. It's hard to abandon software you are locked in. More importantly people who suffer from to those interfaces are not in position of power to make switch operating systems. Forcing them to eat what MS feeds them seems like good way to experiment. If experiment fails, you don't have to hurry and repair it.
- nolok 6y ago
  I agree with you for desktop, but I think you missed the part where he said "for servers", as-in when you install windows server. The default homepage for it should be msdn or bing or whatever, but msn makes zero sense.
  - Kwpolska 6y ago
    How many people actually care about a default homepage in IE in Windows Server? And is it worth the time and effort to make that setting dependent on the SKU?
TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
You can bet your pants there were legions hair-triggered to resign over this. Weak!

Personally I've always been slightly amazed that at no point in time did anyone at Microsoft think that making msn.com the default homepage for servers was a bad idea.

jychang 6y ago

Hilariously, Microsoft production servers are also set to the MSN default homepage, even though most forests are firewalled off from the entire internet. So the homepage doesn't even load.

giantDinosaur 6y ago
Not loading is surely preferable.
- netsharc 6y ago
  Didn't some ad server serving msn homepage managed to be exploited to serve malware to old IE versions. So the hapless admin who needs to download a file off the web (with no other browsers installed, and no firewall) would open IE and boom, exploit!
  - deadwing0 6y ago
    https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/01/msn-home-page-drops-more-malware-via-malvertising/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/01/msn-ho... Is this what you're referring to?

nabla9 6y ago

Personally I feel it's completely understandable. Microsoft has huge market power. It's hard to abandon software you are locked in. More importantly people who suffer from to those interfaces are not in position of power to make switch operating systems. Forcing them to eat what MS feeds them seems like good way to experiment. If experiment fails, you don't have to hurry and repair it.

nolok 6y ago
I agree with you for desktop, but I think you missed the part where he said "for servers", as-in when you install windows server. The default homepage for it should be msdn or bing or whatever, but msn makes zero sense.
- Kwpolska 6y ago
  How many people actually care about a default homepage in IE in Windows Server? And is it worth the time and effort to make that setting dependent on the SKU?

TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago

You can bet your pants there were legions hair-triggered to resign over this. Weak!