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Is that the same Microsoft that thinks it’s okay that the whole company gets owned when an admin logs onto a single compromised computer via RDP?

wslh 2y ago
It is not the exactly same Microsoft since Nadella as CEO. He deserve trust.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
  Nadella was a long time Microsoft insider before he became CEO. Under him Microsoft started putting ads in windows, featuring their AI features unfairly above competitors, bundling Teams with Office, and more. He may come off as being a quiet person but he used the same old playbook all monopolists have. And as for cybersecurity - MS is now forcing AI agents to run on your machine in the background. That undermines everyone’s privacy and security.
  - wslh 2y ago
    Ok, let's go with the discussion: - Microsoft is one of the top conglomerates and has a lot of issues which are common at that size of the organization while delivering incredible revenue results. - I completely agree with you that we can make a list of Microsoft completely unfair practices. One of my companies is full dedicated to Microsoft Windows System Programming/Internals and I an personally not using Windows "anymore" since I cannot (be 100% sure) disable telemetry and all those scammy bloatware. - Having said all that, I have insiding information about the first cybersecurity approach from Microsoft Bill Gates time and it was real. Following that thing, today cybersecurity IS geopolitics so you cannot play the wrong game.
- mrandish 2y ago
  A key difference with Nadella is that as CEO he's earned credibility with the board, investors, analysts and many employees. Arguably, this should give him greater leeway to adopt strategies which may yield less immediate revenue (such as increasing investment in security) with the justification that it will pay off in the longer run.
- legulere 2y ago
  There’s a blog post from this year that states how this isn’t an issue: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240213-00/?p=109398 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240213-00/?p=10...
- jsnell 2y ago
  Nadella has been the CEO of Microsoft for more than 10 years. In the last year there have been multiple huge security breaches at Microsoft. And it's not just that there were bugs. It's that these cases showed a shocking negligence in security systems and processes, and no defense in depth. So why exactly does Nadella deserve any trust on security? All of this happened on his watch. And like, it's not even a close call where he could plausibly blame his predecessors. He had a decade to get his house in order, and appears to have done nothing at all. If anything, it's the opposite: his words on are empty and can't be trusted, until they actually deliver.

wslh 2y ago

It is not the exactly same Microsoft since Nadella as CEO. He deserve trust.

blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
Nadella was a long time Microsoft insider before he became CEO. Under him Microsoft started putting ads in windows, featuring their AI features unfairly above competitors, bundling Teams with Office, and more. He may come off as being a quiet person but he used the same old playbook all monopolists have. And as for cybersecurity - MS is now forcing AI agents to run on your machine in the background. That undermines everyone’s privacy and security.
- wslh 2y ago
  Ok, let's go with the discussion: - Microsoft is one of the top conglomerates and has a lot of issues which are common at that size of the organization while delivering incredible revenue results. - I completely agree with you that we can make a list of Microsoft completely unfair practices. One of my companies is full dedicated to Microsoft Windows System Programming/Internals and I an personally not using Windows "anymore" since I cannot (be 100% sure) disable telemetry and all those scammy bloatware. - Having said all that, I have insiding information about the first cybersecurity approach from Microsoft Bill Gates time and it was real. Following that thing, today cybersecurity IS geopolitics so you cannot play the wrong game.
mrandish 2y ago
A key difference with Nadella is that as CEO he's earned credibility with the board, investors, analysts and many employees. Arguably, this should give him greater leeway to adopt strategies which may yield less immediate revenue (such as increasing investment in security) with the justification that it will pay off in the longer run.
legulere 2y ago
There’s a blog post from this year that states how this isn’t an issue: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240213-00/?p=109398 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240213-00/?p=10...
jsnell 2y ago
Nadella has been the CEO of Microsoft for more than 10 years. In the last year there have been multiple huge security breaches at Microsoft. And it's not just that there were bugs. It's that these cases showed a shocking negligence in security systems and processes, and no defense in depth. So why exactly does Nadella deserve any trust on security? All of this happened on his watch. And like, it's not even a close call where he could plausibly blame his predecessors. He had a decade to get his house in order, and appears to have done nothing at all. If anything, it's the opposite: his words on are empty and can't be trusted, until they actually deliver.