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Trusting Microsoft With Security is a Clown Show

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Summary: A quick and spontaneous video about this morning's post regarding a major new revelation that reaffirms a longstanding trend; Microsoft conflates national security (back doors) with security

THE subject isn't new to us. We've been writing about this for well over a decade and when Ed Snowden released a stash of leaked documents our worst fears or concerns were largely confirmed. Not that the corporate media pays attention to these any longer (those are presumed "old news" even though nothing was done or said to suggest a policy change).

"The latest news will only further curtail that latter agenda, assuming corporate media will bother reporting it like it constantly badmouths "Linux"."Microsoft is really struggling in the server space. Windows Server is being rapidly abandoned, so Microsoft is trying to swallow the GNU/Linux servers market (without success). The latest news will only further curtail that latter agenda, assuming corporate media will bother reporting it like it constantly badmouths "Linux". Even when Microsoft is at fault...

As Ryan has just put it (in IRC): "Microsoft plummeted down to nothing in the server market in the past year. Everyone took advantage of the downtime, I guess, to migrate to somehing else. It had probably been a long time coming, but when you're in the thick of things, it can be hard to abandon something that's plodding along and working just okay enough to get you by. The COVID mess probably did to Microsoft in a year what would have happened in five or six anyway."

"They'll try to avoid talking about that, which means that we should. Everyone is trying to get away and will the first chance that they get. It's like women who were being controlled by their husband to the point that he puts their paychecks in his bank account to make sure they don't have enough money to start over. Microsoft tries to keep its customers by playing dirty and implying they'll be helpless if they leave."

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