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Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code by Spooky23 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:19PM (#25597262)
Microsoft is like the government... everyone has a relationship with them, and those experiences vary from high trust / strategic down to a sort of taxman.

If your work is such that scaling to bazillions of servers or other artifacts isn’t an issue, Microsoft is a smart choice. If you are building Facebook, it is a dumb choice.

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Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code by oblio on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:55PM (#25597621)
I think using their dev tools is a solid choice. Using their OS or their DB... not so much, primarily due to licensing.
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Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code by to11mtm on Thursday December 31, 2020 @06:17PM (#25598381)
> Using their OS or their DB... not so much, primarily due to licensing.

The state of SQL Server's MVCC suppot is arguably enough to preclude use even before we talk about licensing.

I never thought I would miss Oracle until I learned about NOLOCK and the cost of enabling MVCC in SQL Server.

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Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code by trinix912 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:26PM (#25597896)
I only wish more of those tools would be cross platform. I know it's not happening, but it'd be nice if I could develop WPF stuff right on my macbook without a VM.
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Re:SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code by hu3 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @06:19PM (#25598391)
Same. At least now there's a promise of cross-platform UI in the form of https://github.com/dotnet/maui
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