To reinforce the shift in company culture toward "empowering and rewarding every employee to find security issues, report them," and "help fix them," Smith said that Nadella sent an email out to all staff urging that security should always remain top of mind.
Yeah that ought to do it.
Lol. Considering it was senior management that ignored staff, this statement is even fucking dumber than it sounds.
That's just barely thoughts-and-prayers level. They could at least schedule a mandatory meeting that interrupts everyone's day for half an hour.
Usually they set up a hotline which may or may not get you fired.
Using the hotline won't get you fired, but somehow - for totally unrelated reasons - after using it you'll end up on a PIP with untenable goals, and that will get you fired.
"Of course, fixing these kinds of issues won't push your product deadlines back at all. But we'll be thankful to you! "
Same energy as "You have unlimited PTO here, but we also have this nifty little thing called performance metrics"
"Next week to improve employee morale we will have a pizza party" - Nadella, probably
Pick one:
you can have a propietary os thats secure, but the problem is once you get to the point where youre selling data and allow anything to be installed of course, its no longer secure.
You can't verify it's secure if it's proprietary, so it's never secure? Having control over other people's computing creates bad incentives to gain at your user's expense, so it's day 1 you should lose trust.
You can have audits done on proprietary software. Just because the public can't see it doesn't mean nobody else can.
That just moves requiring trust from the 1st party to 2nd or 3rd party. Unreasonable trust.
Do you yourself actually audit the software you use, or do you just trust what others say?
Wait....you don't audit every package and dependency before you compile and install?
That's crazy risky my man.
Me? I know security and take it seriously, unlike some people here. I'm actually almost done with my audit and should be ready to finally boot Fedora 8 within the next 6-8 months.
I mean what they have to do is obvious, right? Only one of these two options can help increase ad revenue.
This statement, from the company that looked at Recall and collectively said "yeah, this is a good idea".
Well recall is why they're so focused on security now. They want to host every detail of your life. They can't do that now because their platform is a tire fire.
My suggestion, based on more than three decades of observing and interacting with this company: don’t believe a fucking thing they say, ever.
"Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority..."
The fact that this had to be stated is a testament to garbage leadership. Notice it's not even the top priority, just a top priority. These guys will still get bonuses of course.
The security will definitely also take a very profitable shape. I.e. further locking the OS away from the user, more black box software, etc.
Too late. Linux is going from my hobby project to my primary OS by the time they stop providing Windows 10 updates, if not sooner.
Too late, my office just switched to Linux.
..........what? What kind of office do you work in that understands linux??? Most offices I've worked in don't even understand the copier.
If Microsoft cares so much about security, then WTF are they doing greenlighting a project like CoPilot / Recall?
no they won’t. these pricks literally fired their entire AI Ethics team… that tells you everything you need to know about where their priorities are.
the only thing they are gonna do about this is figure out a way to make people not angry, but continue to fo as much shady shit as they can.
I've spent the better part of my life watching microsoft fuck people over and then when they finally - finally get called out on it they do a bunch of bashful aw-shucksing before doing it again and again and again.
No.
Microsoft is dead. Kill it with fire. The US government should have known better, but they didn't because like every other organization they have a boatload of clueless mid-level managers who only every learned Windows and fall for microsoft's garbage every time, despite the eye-popping price.
NO MICROSOFT. EVER. They're a criminal organizaiton, the amount of destruction they've created will never be known.
the funniest part of the fall of MS for me has been the cunts getting so excited about fucking off the home users they forgot one vital thing: C-suite and beancounters run at a home user level. And most infrastructure techs will happily flick to a linux distro come server build time.
Their current direction has also pretty much killed their use in anything related to media distribution, it's virtually a detailed list of TPN violations
Microsoft focused on security at this point is like a builder focusing on building strong foundations now that the house is built on top.
It's a little too late my dudes.
I remember them saying all the same exact things in the early 2000s after a slew of widespread disasters. Security will never be a higher priority than whatever cool new thing they want to sell.
According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the "security nightmare." Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem
This says everything about this shitty company. Worst of the worst. Because that’s how they make 90% of their cash. By exploiting licensing deals and siphoning data to sell to whomever because they do not care who it is so long as they bid the highest.
It’s amazing no one has tried to break up their control over PCs. Make this world make sense.
That is basically the biggest fuck up you could make as a government contracted technology provider. They even let it happen and hid it deliberately.
Microsoft is pivoting its company culture
Oh yes, the thing they're well known for succeeding at.
You mean they have been letting it slip?
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, “has taken on the responsibility personally to serve as the senior executive with overall accountability for Microsoft’s security,”
Err. Wasn't that already true? He's chief executive officer, not chief some shit that doesn't include security officer.
Linux is great. It was initially concerning to migrate but overall I'm happy I did. I assume Microsoft will attempt to make things more incompatible and proprietary as a last chance attempt to hold onto users. Ultimate this will just lead to more people switching to Linux faster over time.
Rather than driving the industry forward with leadership and vision Microsoft is being driven by AI and Advertising fads that are self destructing facebook and google.
Its clear its too late for Microsoft to do anything but lose trust at this point. If the outlook hacks and US government didnt cause them to rethink these terrible anti-privacy ideas then a bit of AI backlash won't either. As soon as people look away they'll start stuffing the OS with snoopware again.
Oh no. How will I know where I'm going without copilot?!
Why lie about this, Microsoft? Your PR team sucks.
Until next week when they change their mind again
Why in the absolute fuuuuuck would a "secure" computer with sensitive data be running motherfucking Windows?! Linux is easy enough for pretty much any Windows user in an office environment to handle these days. There's just no excuse for sensitive business to ever be done on Windows at this point.
They legally can't prioritize shit but shareholder profits. We are all about to watch a US based company, purposefully fuck over the US government and possibly us by extension, and nothing will happen. Fuck this oligarchy.
This is like that psychopath GF that lies and pushes you around to test your limits with the evil plan to manipulate you. Every once in a while you can complain about her behavior and then she will bombard you with fake love and forgiveness to push later in the future again.
In today's news, Microsoft commits treason against the United States Government.
!remindme 6 months
I wonder what the outcome will be.
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