From documents just released by Der Spiegel, via Edward Snowden (click to zoom)
Microsoft Windows has been facilitating/enabling GCHQ (like 'NSA UK') and NSA with back doors, including -- perhaps passively -- so-called 'crash reports', as revealed by new documents (published over the weekend). Microsoft bug reports are now being used against their reporters, selecting "targets" using this 'volunteering' effort. How nice is that? No wonder China is banning Microsoft software while Russia heads down a similar path (abolishing x86 in government).
A group of workers employed by a Microsoft contractor successfully organized a union — a rare feat in the tech industry — and is now bargaining with its company over a contract.
"Microsoft has basically outsourced a lot of its labour and put it on contract, so there is no termination, no layoffs."Finally, speaking of Microsoft spin, Adrian Bridgwater calls "Community Service" Microsoft indoctrination of students. We don't know if he is being deliberately thick or just trying to entertain readers. This relates to what we wrote some days ago about Microsoft preying on children. Microsoft is trying to fill GitHub with .NET projects, even at the expense of CodePlex. There is a charm offensive over this and Microsoft's booster Mr. Anderson wrote that "Program Manager Kasey Uhlenhuth explains that the Roslyn team is not only moving the repository, but also switching to git internally."
Just wait until propagandistic firms like the Microsoft-connected Black Duck claim that .NET and Microsoft-centric licences are on the rise, based on some figures from GitHub. That's just a case of Microsoft infiltrating its competition. ⬆