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Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products

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285 points alephnerd | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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neya ◴[21 Oct 24 07:28 UTC] No.41901576[source]▶
If you use Azure in any realistic production environments, then it's on you. Even with $100k in free credits, they couldn't convince me to use it for more than a month. It is expensive, the interface is highly user unfriendly and most important of all, their products don't at all seem reliable for production workloads because of stuff like this. Sorry Microsoft, I think you can do much better.
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BodyCulture ◴[21 Oct 24 08:01 UTC] No.41901755[source]▶
I was laughing recently when at some place they started to install MS software on all Linux machines to integrate them into Azure. At that point you should just stop and think for a while about it. Didn’t you go for Linux because you wanted to have a reliable system?
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ratg13 ◴[21 Oct 24 09:34 UTC] No.41902267[source]▶
The MS security software (for better or worse), is better than any open-source linux solution, and can follow attackers as they move laterally through the network, instead of linux servers being a big black hole were adversaries can do as they please.

All security software from any vendor is going to have issues, and often you just have to go with whatever the company is running for the whole environment and not compromising security because of some jokes from the 90s

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light_hue_1 ◴[21 Oct 24 10:12 UTC] No.41902535[source]▶
The joke from the 90s is the fact that people still use MS products and think they aren't compromising security. MS have had disastrous outcome after disastrous outcome with an uncountable amount of security holes. There's been an astronomical toll on the economy from their crappy software with no end in sight.
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1. mschuster91 ◴[21 Oct 24 12:16 UTC] No.41903329[source]▶
> The joke from the 90s is the fact that people still use MS products and think they aren't compromising security.

Well, it's not like there are that many alternatives. macOS is out of the price range for public service and most large companies, in addition to a lot of specialist software not being available for macOS.

Linux has it even worse regarding application compatibility on desktop - and no, WINE is not an option, because the kind of software used in public services comes with strict stipulations where you can run it, sometimes down to minor versions, and if you violate that, the vendor can and will refuse support. For a lot of FOSS software, there isn't even commercial support available so it gets automatically off the list because companies actually want to pay people so that they have someone to talk to when they get issues. And that's before you hit the cost wall that is employee (re)training.

IMHO, it would have been the role of our governments to mandate MS get their shit together first before diving into AI and advertising crap.