With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer
  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Let me explain…the same people that brought you windows 3, 95, 98, 2000, nt, XP, etc now want to obtain everything you type via an AI tool they created.

    They would know all your health history, everything you scan, your photos relating to family and work secrets, etc. for the corporate, they would know who from LinkedIn will get the job and who will be fired. They will know about layoffs and about business secrets and success. Etc.

    It’s pretty simple. Rather than just a keylogger, Microsoft wants you to use a smart keylogger that they control. How is that not the dumbest thing to ever use at work? It’s gotta be the biggest IT security failure ever.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Now for all governments in the world: install Linux already and get it over with. Cut your dependence on an abusive and crappy software vendor

  • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Microsoft knows the government needs something, and is insistent on squeezing as many of your tax dollars from them as possible, or leaving us all vulnerable.

    Capitalism is terrorism.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Which then raises the question: why isn’t the US using open source software everywhere, paying the same -or very likely - much less to maintain and expand said software? Can you imagine the money stream towards thousands of devs fixing any (but, feature or security) issue, which they would already do for free? Finally some recognition and so on.

    Finally they’d have software that they can trust and rely upon, it’ll kill one huge company and spawn hundreds of smaller companies. Win-win all around

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Because there is seldom a good replacement for the majority of software that enterprises use.

      • s1nistr4@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        As much as I like FOSS it’s significantly harder to fund.

        With proprietary you keep the source code, ship the app, collect data & sell it, and charge for a premium /subscription. They then use that money to fund talented devs and give them deadlines to make good software.

        With FOSS it’s largely contribution work by people who work on it in their free time. They use donations or paying for enterprise support, and if they do add a subscription service / premium version you can just modify the code and get it for free.

        That’s largely why FOSS software is behind, what’s the direct incentive for someone to make it good?