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Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
(www.propublica.org)
Could be worse. Could be Oracle.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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That's because other clouds are even bigger piles of shit
Looking at you AWS US East-1
As opposed to the other Microsoft products that are not piles of shit?
These are dire issues for the military. I would wager if we attacked China like we did Iran and Venezuela, it would not go well for us, thanks to the pervasiveness of Microsoft and its lack of security.
Microsoft supports their cloud in China.
Segregating them isnt nearly enough
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/overview-connectivity-and-interoperability
"Nobody's got fired for buying IBM or Microsoft."
Can we update this saying for enshittification?
Anyway, whatever. :)