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I'm not one to defend Microsoft or Windows but I'm not really surprised they couldn't get the necessary info gathered (gathering engineering details, security i
by hbn 2y ago
I'm not one to defend Microsoft or Windows but I'm not really surprised they couldn't get the necessary info gathered (gathering engineering details, security inspection, possibly discussing changes to internal plans or engineering details, figuring out which parts they're ready to be public about, translated across departments to the PR team who then has to translate the details into a PR statement, more cross-checking to make sure nothing inaccurate is said, etc) before the articles were published.
I wouldn't really call it "radio silence," that's just the speed something like this moves at. And it's not regarding a feature already live or anything so... it's fine if they take their time?
- x0x0 2y ago> it's fine if they take their time? Sure feels like a symptom of them not thinking through the trivially obvious and enormous security problems they created. Competent people would have thought through things like eg wow, it would be super, super bad if someone exfiltrated this before announcing features.