Even after CISA's review of the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange online intrusion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39929246

There's stories like this for every big vendor. This rarely has any impact.

The phrase is, "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft." It's descended from the same phrase, applied to IBM, when they were the power.

But the impact is deeper nowadays.

What was the worst that could happen when you bought IBM back then?

I think the sentiment is less that something catastophic can't happen by depending on M$ - it's more that you personally will never be blamed for their servers going down. Whereas if you advocate for a smaller/more open solution and that blows up in the company's face, it's your ass on the line.

But that could change after the last couple of mistakes by MS.

Do maybe it's still in the head of the people but it could backfire.

Not as much as it used to be, now that they can do most of what they need with Google's free apps