Gates has been making his tech teams work on social engineering rather than actual tech support...including security. So Microsoft products are not secure. Never were very secure...now they are wide open.
MS products are typically very secure. However, AI is breaking all software at record rates. The difference? Microsoft is visible (everyone runs their software) and forthcoming. Oracle, Adobe, Google, Amazon? Not so much. Open source is not secure. There have been a lot of very high profile, and very damaging security bugs, found in open source recently. Check out European governments shutting down their internet due to a PHP bug. MS regularly pushes patches and posts security briefs that everyone has access to.
Nothing on-line is secure. No operating system (available to the likes of us'ens) is secure. But MS sux just on general principles though ... as does Apple since Wozniak left.
They actually are. The code stays up to date with security and product patches. On prem tends to be a disaster of software that hasn't been updated in years. Many years.
No, they aren't, and just because something is hosted in a cloud doesn't mean that its being updated, it only means that YOU aren't the one responsible for keeping it up to date. Someone like me is. Also, just because an OS or application is up to date doesn't mean it doesn't have a critical bug that will allow all of the data held (or accessible through) the system to be exfiltrated. I've been hit with one of those, too.
Outlook? Worst of the bad. Left MS years ago. Gates IS an expert on viruses - he's been generating them as long as Fauci (birds of a feather). Run Linux and OpenOffice now. Mostly because it's not MS, not that it's any more secure. You're not even "secure" if off-line. But MS is far more secure than that magic box almost everyone keeps glued to their bodies at all times. Maybe if Musk comes out with something ...
We / I had problems at work today, all this Cloud BS just got exposed as weak ass technology. Microsoft sucks ass. No telling who hacked them, but it's impressive
You heard Gates, we might need an incident to convince us how important AI is to him.
ReplyDeleteHopefully. Fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteGates has been making his tech teams work on social engineering rather than actual tech support...including security. So Microsoft products are not secure. Never were very secure...now they are wide open.
ReplyDeleteMS products are typically very secure. However, AI is breaking all software at record rates. The difference? Microsoft is visible (everyone runs their software) and forthcoming. Oracle, Adobe, Google, Amazon? Not so much. Open source is not secure. There have been a lot of very high profile, and very damaging security bugs, found in open source recently. Check out European governments shutting down their internet due to a PHP bug. MS regularly pushes patches and posts security briefs that everyone has access to.
DeleteNothing on-line is secure. No operating system (available to the likes of us'ens) is secure. But MS sux just on general principles though ... as does Apple since Wozniak left.
DeleteMicrosoft products got worse with every Upgrade.
ReplyDeleteTHIS ^ .... But I think is a feature not a fault.
DeletePut everything in the cloud they said.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be more secure and reliable they said........
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Whitehall, NY
They actually are. The code stays up to date with security and product patches. On prem tends to be a disaster of software that hasn't been updated in years. Many years.
DeleteJust as secure as handing a box of punch cards to some guy in a halon-protected room. The best computer guys don't work for the corporations.
DeleteNo, they aren't, and just because something is hosted in a cloud doesn't mean that its being updated, it only means that YOU aren't the one responsible for keeping it up to date. Someone like me is. Also, just because an OS or application is up to date doesn't mean it doesn't have a critical bug that will allow all of the data held (or accessible through) the system to be exfiltrated. I've been hit with one of those, too.
DeleteI lived before computers , microsoft and outlook. I look forward to not having any with me every moment of the day.
ReplyDeleteHe’s pissed off at all you unvaccinated heathens
ReplyDeleteps Psy war op music is better but not by much
ReplyDeleteDumped microsoft office and went with Open Office a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteMmm. buh bye.
ReplyDelete"There's a killer on the road..."
ReplyDeleteillegal drunkard at the wheel.
DeleteOutlook? Worst of the bad. Left MS years ago. Gates IS an expert on viruses - he's been generating them as long as Fauci (birds of a feather). Run Linux and OpenOffice now. Mostly because it's not MS, not that it's any more secure. You're not even "secure" if off-line. But MS is far more secure than that magic box almost everyone keeps glued to their bodies at all times. Maybe if Musk comes out with something ...
ReplyDeleteMagic 8-ball said, "Outlook isn't good". Yeah, we knew that, but Microsoft shipped it anyway.
DeleteNo, its just another example of Microsoft not putting their patches and updates through any sort of QA process.
ReplyDeleteThis ^^^^. - Nemo
DeleteWe / I had problems at work today, all this Cloud BS just got exposed as weak ass technology. Microsoft sucks ass. No telling who hacked them, but it's impressive
ReplyDeleteOh no!
ReplyDeleteNow how am I going to see the 20 spam emails I get each day and 50 emails a day from the folks I bought a t shirt from?
apparently no.
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