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When the Response to Hospitals Being Systematically Cracked Through Microsoft Products Like Windows is... Blocking the Competition of Microsoft

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Summary: People keep dying because Microsoft Windows, poorly designed with NSA back doors in it, falls into the hands of malicious actors (sometimes overseas, sometimes using leaked tools of the NSA itself) and guess who takes the blame when hospitals grind to a halt due to this...

TODAY we continue our long journey, which will be summarised at the end. We continue to receive additional details as well as evidence. Apparently many people are familiar with such stories.



While much attention has been paid to COVID-19 death tolls, little or no attention is paid to death caused directly and indirectly by Windows downtimes, ransomware, Microsoft licensing fees (money down the drain; cannot buy equipment like more ventilators), brain/talent drain and so on.

That ought to change. We need to bring up the subject.

A hospital ER"My particular misery adds to the general hospital reaction to the ransomware attack," a source once told us after a hospital had been cracked (Windows obviously), "where all things competing with Microsoft were removed. Gmail, for example, was blocked as "email" while Yahoo email was allowed. Wikipedia was blocked as a "collaborative" site. Music services like Pandora and Spotify were blocked without stated reasons, and I imagine it was done simply to punish the hospital staff."

So Windows with back doors remains, but radio streaming sites are seen as a security risk? Bizarre.

"I can see the ugly place all of this is going," the source added. "The Microsoft press is blaming their users again for this round of Microsoft failure, saying that small and medium size businesses as a class are simply incompetent. Their solution is to move all computing, including medical records, to Microsoft's "cloud", as if the local terminals won't still be a point of attack that way because Windows 10 is the magical secure Windows people have been waiting for."

“Music services like Pandora and Spotify were blocked without stated reasons, and I imagine it was done simply to punish the hospital staff.”
      --Anonymous
We're already seeing the rush, amid pandemic 'disaster capitalism', to do the same to all schools. Bill Gates stands to profit from that personally, having lobbied for this for well over a decade. He bet his money on school privatisation.

One equipment provider, we were told, "has a page advocating just that." (Sending all the patients' data to Microsoft)

"Who knows," our source joked, "maybe Windows 11 will be a crippled version of Chrome OS but "familiar" because Bill Gates owns it."

“Their solution is to move all computing, including medical records, to Microsoft's "cloud", as if the local terminals won't still be a point of attack that way because Windows 10 is the magical secure Windows people have been waiting for.”
      --Anonymous
So to summarise, a hospital gets cracked, all the medical records taken away, patients are unable to receive treatment, ransom is potentially paid, and who takes the blame for this Windows malware? Microsoft competitors.

This simply served to reinforce the view that Microsoft is more like a cult/religion, whose foothold in healthcare may boil down to bribery (or moles paid by Microsoft, e.g. kickbacks) rather than any technical merit. Many people die because of this, but the media gleefully blames the victims.

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