I worry that it's worse. They have been working on this for years, but I think that they may have assumed that their desktop market dominance was so sound, that

I worry that it's worse. They have been working on this for years, but I think that they may have assumed that their desktop market dominance was so sound, that they just didn't care to put the effort into privacy. What are you going to do, Linux Desktop? This seems like the general attitude that delivers lackluster solutions across many products, like Teams, SharePoint, etc.