It's quite ironic they call it enhance security to tie their software to their cloud considering their cloud infrastructure is one of the most hacked of the big corpos. Data breaches happen all the damn time.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/hackers-could-read-n...

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hack...

Something that doesn't happen much, if at all, with Google or Amazon.

Microsoft is one of the most incompetent and impotent corpo out there and considering how much critical infrastructure relies on their software it would do good for the world if the government intervened like they should have back in the antitrust lawsuit days. Break them up. Separate the cloud, windows and office businesses. Make them stand on their own merits.

>security and user experience

This is corporate speak for advertisements and telemetry

Oh daddy MS please enhance my user experience OH YES enhance me uhhnnnnn

I couldn't face my own reflection in the mirror if my job was justifying obviously user hostile crap like this.

“Security”

Gaslighting at its finest.