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Re:Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly i... by dreamcompiler on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:39PM (#36980730)
Of course they have the resources. What they don't have is the incentives to do better. Just like every other big company that has a breach, they are not punished when they ignore basic security and they are not rewarded for paying attention to it. In fact they are punished by Wall Street for paying attention to it, because that costs money.

As long as all they have to do is say "Whoops! We're sorry" when a breach happens, we should expect breaches to be the norm for all big companies.

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Re:Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly i... by bagacrap on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:32PM (#36981026)
Hopefully a news item as large as this one will cause them to lose some contracts, at least at the margin.
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Re:Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly i... by hulitu on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:52AM (#36982667)
You expect too much from Sales and CIOs/CEOs. Most of them have no idea what this is, but they make the decision to buy SW products.
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Re:Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly i... by BLKNSLVR on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:44PM (#36981108)
> Of course they have the resources. What they don't have is the incentives to do better.

Off-topic: this is exactly the same reason that Google offers up ads for scams and ads containing or linking to malware on their own advertising network.

The only way to get to the size of these companies is to scale what can be scaled, and damn the rest until the pigeons come home to roost. Which, if they play their political-donation cards right, won't happen. And if it does, jeez they've made bank in the meantime, and will Goodhart the shit out of whatever watered-down legislational changes may make their way through.

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Re:Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly i... by insanitybit on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:12AM (#36984732)
They definitely have the incentives. This conversation is a good example of that. Azure is attempting to compete in an aggressively competitive market and their customers absolutely care about security.
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