Thank you for this link.
Since our previous - competent - IT engineer retired last year and my company hired a young, utterly incompetent MCSE monkey, the company has been more and more falling into the Microsoft cloud trap, what with Office 365, Teams, Sharepoint, and more and more pointless Windows servers to replace our perfectly working but no longer administered Linux machines. It’s so bad that this Microsoft jockey caused 25 working machines to be landfilled because they can’t be updated to Windows 11.
And so since this guy was hired, I’ve been sending choice links to our CEO, who is NOT an idiot and listens to common sense, to convince him that entangling the company with Microsoft is a very bad stragegy, both in terms of finances and data soveignty.
The argument that Microsoft was an untrustworthy data-hungry company didn’t quite land with him. The fact that it now operates in a fascist country certainly had more of an effect on him. I’m hoping your link will turn more gears in his head…
Please make this a post, and keep us updated! I am interested to see if you manage to change anything.
Have you shared the CSRB report from 2023 with him already?
It identified a series of operational and strategic decisions by Microsoft that “collectively point to a corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management.” The report pulls no punches in its assessment, declaring that “the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed” was both preventable and unacceptable.
Good luck!
Please, please win out. Microsoft is a fuckin scourge on computing. They deserve nothing and get everything with their monopolistic bs.
Sounds like you’re with a small company. Great news, it’s worse in the bigger ones where the influence and opinions of the working level won’t ever reach the ones making such decisions. Over time our computing work has been restricted and tightened so much (for security, you know) that running basic Office stuff can be difficult to do, particularly Excel and macros that we rely on to do our job. The computers have turned into little boxes that are essentially terminals for cloud run crap, and the last new upgrade for one of them (have to replace working equipment with the latest thing for security, again) was given to us with not only no Office installed, it was locked down so hard a user logged in couldn’t save a file on their Desktop or in Documents. Also discovered by accident using a flash drive to transfer files can trigger a Bitlocker lockdown lol. Security again, even though all these units are in a secure building. IT by the way is now I think a single guy for us covering the whole region, probably remotely if he can, and I doubt he’s better than the last one we had for years who would call someone else to walk him through stuff.
I don’t doubt it’s like this in some degree everywhere now.
Hopefully they are compiling data points to bring to the next BoD meeting. Maybe the last data points on PowerPoint.
Everything you put on a Microsoft service will be accessible by American spies.
That’s how all mega corps operate and always has been this way.
Time to send this link in a certain teams chat.
Lol because AI is an unprofitable bubble the only place companies like Microsoft can go other than using AI to obscure culpability for mass violence (whether it be for “deciding” what Palestinian to murder next or denying lifesaving healthcare) is monetizing surveillance of their customers.
