Ironically funny...............
Maybe they could offer a password manager as an enhancement to Explorer. /S
Operating systems like Windows were designed so that advertisers, cookies, server farms could access your computer processes easily. They are primarily designed to work for the marketers and data miners. It’s why there are barn-door sized holes that hackers can drive Mack trucks through.
"...Those records were customer service and support logs detailing conversations between Microsoft support agents and customers from across the world..."On the one hand, those were private conversations that could contain security-damaging exchanges and data.
On the other hand, they probably MOSTLY contained the same information as thousands of "support forum" pages on hundreds of public sites. The difference being that these are identified as real people and companies, not just anonymous forum handles.
Let's hope MS does better with their new JEDI contract.
The Boston Glob, when it was owned by the NYT, once reused computer printouts of its credit card customers' info to wrap the hot off the presses bundles of its fishwrap, literally putting all that info out on the streets of greater Boston.
That was for a fairly limited time, not 14 years.
Aw, gee whiz, Mr Wilson
First, my complete Office of Personnel Mgmt info, back to ‘80 was stolen by the Chinese!
Then, it was Yahoo, and all my stuff there!
Then, it was Capital One!
Now, it is Microsoft!!!!!
This probably really helped out those spammers from India who claim to be from Microsoft. If you could recite past info then it would add to their credibility.
Gee
If you give any information to any company of significant size, you should expect that information will get out into the wild. Any promises of privacy or data protection are functionally unenforceable and moot once the data is out there.
Yes, apparently Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey were in charge of Microsoft security.
PING!
Feeling happy I’ve never called Microsoft support.
Thats what happens when a majority of Microsoft’s workforce is made up of lying, cheating unqualified H1Bs from India and Communist China
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I think Microsoft was about to be exposed for selling, sharing confidential customer info for years so they threw it all out onto the street and will now say all the exploitation is new and not done intentionally, historically, for money, “Shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
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Microsoft Security Shocker? Isn’t that an oxymoron? That’s akin to saying “government efficiency,” only inside out.
The company I work for switched over to Office 365 over the past few years and our data is on their sharepoint servers. We have to log in about every 15 minutes to our sites.
I have to get a text sent to my cell phone several times a day which is real annoying. Everything is slower on the computer as everything you do is uploaded to their servers. Outlook will say Not responding for a while then recover, Word, Excel are slow due to the “cloud”.
They have had outages at times and you cannot get your work done til they fix it. 3 I read about in different parts of the country since we signed up with them. Our company fired about half the IT dept and replaced them with Microsoft. Nothing better then putting your company at risk to strangers.