The firm previously threatened legal action against Eclipse, too, but has since backed down. From their side, Eclipse had previously threatened to mass-disclose zero-day Windows vulnerabilities on July 14. They too have since then relented , stating that writing RoguePlanet took more time than expected, and that they may take a break and seemingly won't make the July 14 date the Windowspocalypse Day after all.
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DS426 Popping some more popcorn and laughing at Microslop's recent statement on X. Turns out much of the security community is having a field day with MS over this. 2061293718942908925 View: https://x.com/msftsecresponse/status/2061293718942908925 Reply
JamesJones44 DS426 said: Popping some more popcorn and laughing at Microslop's recent statement on X. Turns out much of the security community is having a field day with MS over this. 2061293718942908925 View: https://x.com/msftsecresponse/status/2061293718942908925 We did just hear from the Xbox CEO about the need to be "more efficient" and "do more with less". I'm sure this is an MS theme across the board (minus Co-Pilot), so why not do "more with less" and just skip paying security researchers who help improve security and threaten legal action with layers already on the payroll instead? That's "more efficient" Reply
bigdragon JamesJones44 said: We did just hear from the Xbox CEO about the need to be "more efficient" and "do more with less". I'm sure this is an MS theme across the board (minus Co-Pilot), so why not do "more with less" and just skip paying security researchers who help improve security and threaten legal action with layers already on the payroll instead? That's "more efficient" Brilliant! Microsoft and their competitors already have gamers perform QA on games instead of properly staffing, paying, and allotting time for an internal QA process. They've been adopting a similar approach with Windows over the past couple years too. It'll save even more money to get rid of the paid cybersecurity professionals and crowdsource them from the internet. Just think of all that shareholder cheddar and executive bonuses ! Microsoft stock will be going to the moon! /sarcasm On a more serious note, the Steam Machine can't launch fast enough. I think its success or failure is less important than the impact of introducing a whole new audience to the concept of a PC OS that's not Windows or MacOS. The idea of having a positive experience on Linux is nothing special to readers of Tom's, but it'll be a whole new experience for other people. I don't advocate for a big cybersecurity incident that affects millions of people and I want the next version of Windows to be better, but the antagonistic relationship between Microsoft and Nightmare Eclipse needs to be giving Windows users a lot of anxiety. Reply
Faiakes What an own goal for Microsoft. So easy to avoid and yet they are so inept that they let it come down to this. Reply
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