Microsoft 360 has over 300 million corporate users - trusting it with email, document management, and collaboration etc. It’s the defacto standard in larger companies especially in banking, medicine and finance that have more rigorous compliance regulations.

Not like most had a choice, they already had office documents and windows, what else were they going to pick?

Your historical pile of millions of MSOffice documents is an ocean sized moat.

Surely MS wouldn't abuse that trust.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42245124

IT policy flick of the switch disables that, such as at my organization. That was instead intended to snag single, non-corporate, user accounts (still horrible, but I mean to convey that MS at no point in all that expected a company's IT department to actually leave that training feature enabled in policy).

This was debunked within hours, as commented on that thread last week.

And MS already showed the customers shouldn’t trust them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408776

Maybe it’s a good idea to spread your data and not putting it in one place, if you really need to use the cloud

The administrative segments that decide to sell their firstborn to Microsoft all have their heads in the clouds. They'll pay Microsoft to steal their data and resell it and they'll defend their decisions making beyond their own demise.

As such Microsoft is doing the right choice in outright stealing data for whatever purpose. It will have no real consequences.

I think the case could be made that “spreading your data” is exactly what you don’t want to do, you’re increasing your attack surface.

I do not think that is a reflection of Microsoft being trustworthy.

Surely people would agree C is widely used, it is a "defacto standard" in many areas, yet... And that is a programming language, businesses are a whole different story.

(FWIW I am not trying to speak against C at all.)

For example when they backed the CEOs coup against the board.

With AI-CEOs - https://ai-ceo.org - This would never have happened because their CEOs have a kill switch and mobile app for the board for full observability

Because idk, windows, AD, office, and so many more Microsoft products could already betray that customer trust but don’t.

How do you know they don't?

It is immaterial what they do and what you know. Important is what CIOs of the enterprise believe.

Because that would be the biggest story in the world.

They betrayed their customers in the Storm-0558 attack. They didn't disclose the full scale and charged the customers for the advanced logging needed for detections.

Not to mention that they abolished QA and outsourced it to the customer.

It doesn't need to / it already is – most enterprises are already Microsoft/Azure shops. Already approved, already there. What is close to impossible is to use anything non Microsoft - with one exception – open source.

They sign business associate agreements. It's good enough for HIPAA compliance.

For some reason (mainly because Microsoft has orders of magnitude more sells reps than anything else) companies have been trusting Microsoft for their most critical data for a long time.

Maybe they aren't, but when you already have all your documents in sharepoint, all your emails in outlook and all your databases VMs in Azure, then Azure OpenAI is trusted in the organization.

The devil you know