Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

As usual with all these types of posts, people go "HA HA, MICRO$OFT SUCKS" without understanding business practices that keep them afloat.

Don't use Exchange? Cool, what should we use instead? Does it support 15 people all the way up to 150000 people? I used to run Exchange cluster for 70k people, is there other mail software out there complete with non-shared disk redundancy? Where the users connect to single endpoint and software figures it out from there?

Sharepoint with another 2 RCEs. Not shocked, the software is terrible. However, it's only software that will stand up under load and let us shard it easily. All open-source software is one of those, runs fine in Homelab, likely falls down under load. Few Open Source Developers want to work on this stuff which I get because it's tedious work interfacing with computer illiterate end users. I'd rather chug sewage then do this work for free.

Finally, it's somewhat backwards compatible. Most businesses are filled with ancient software that no one has worked on in 20 years. That Excel document with Macros from 1997. With some registry changes degrading security posture, still works. I doubt you will find Office software with level of backwards compatibility unless they are using Microsoft Office level of compatibility.

Microsoft has real gordian knot here and few solutions besides "Backwards compatibility is OVER. Upgrade to modern or GTFO". Meanwhile, I get hit up by $ThreeJobsAgo over some Exchange Web Services solution I slapped together for them in Python they wanted me to upgrade to GraphAPI since Microsoft turned off Exchange Web Services in Office365.

> Sharepoint with another 2 RCEs. Not shocked, the software is terrible. However, it's only software that will stand up under load and let us shard it easily. All open-source software is one of those, runs fine in Homelab, likely falls down under load. Few Open Source Developers want to work on this stuff which I get because it's tedious work interfacing with computer illiterate end users. I'd rather chug sewage then do this work for free.

All just empty claims without showing any evidence. Did you ever set up a multi-client syncthing setup to test your theories about it falling over? Or do you have any references, pointing us to analysis, that shows, that any such tool doesn't hold water? What about some bit torrent setups? There are many options in this space, and one doesn't even have to lump synchronization and viewing in a web UI into one service. If one doesn't, then there are many tools that can accomplish the job better than Sharepoint.

And btw. paid MS Office doesn't even hold water for some 80 people, delivering me my e-mails some half an hour later, at a snail's pace, one or two a minute, while my 1 EUR per month free software using e-mail provider (posteo) manages to give me all my new e-mail almost instantly, the moment I open Thunderbird.