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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
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Re: Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
#152As 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 endpoi…
How oh how did these nuclear weapons facilities manage to function in the days before Exchange and Sharepoint?
Novell or Lotus Notes
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I'm gonna be honest, you sound like a problem employee. The companies not using Microsoft, are using Google. Which in my experience is equally or measurably worse. Just personal data points, but every avowed Microsoft hater I've ever worked with has been... difficult. Like a-drag-on-the-team-because-he-refuses-to-use-company-tools difficult. Edit: How does an aged post on this site go from +4 to -1 in the span of a f…
Doing research on a potential employer and filtering out opportunities based on preferred toolchains is a green flag not a red flag.
Dev tools, sure. Self-selecting yourself out of the office/email toolset used by 90% of companies seems like a weird flex.
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Companies that don't use Outlook? All five of them? I've seen companies with varying levels of MS product integration but Outlook is pretty foundational. Now, if a company says they use SharePoint or Teams to store their documentation, run to the hills. Wikis or bust.
God, Teams is absolutely miserable. Video calling on Teams makes you appreciate just how well Zoom works. Teams macOS client? Crashes on startup, even after clearing all of my user data. Teams iOS client? You can join a call by a link, but you can't see the call UI because it's behind the login window. Teams on Firefox? No video support for years , and most recently just glitches out and shows an empty page when tryi…
You’re probably doing something cute with your network filtering or EDR.
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I don't know man, you're gonna have a very tough crowd if you're gonna try and convince anyone that Teams is as good as Google Meet.
They are all equally crap. I'm convinced the people designing collaboration tools don't have to use them on a daily basis.
The plague that is currently infesting our software industry is "Promo-Driven Culture". Employees are incentivized to get a promotion, not to make life better for anyone, except for their manager's promotion.
Re: Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
#156One of the first things I do after getting an inquiry from a recruiter or friend referral is lookup the MX record for the company’s email domain. It is an anonymous one-command check to see if they’re a Microsoft shop. If they are, it’s enormous personal red flag. MSFT is very popular so I’m only speaking about my own experience, but I have learned over the course of 20 years that an MSFT IT stack is highly correlate…
If a company provides a Mac laptop, that to me is a green flag, if it provides a Windows laptop, that is a red flag.
The best company I ever worked at, provided every software engineer both a Mac laptop and a Linux desktop as standard equipment.
Re: Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
#157One of the first things I do after getting an inquiry from a recruiter or friend referral is lookup the MX record for the company’s email domain. It is an anonymous one-command check to see if they’re a Microsoft shop. If they are, it’s enormous personal red flag. MSFT is very popular so I’m only speaking about my own experience, but I have learned over the course of 20 years that an MSFT IT stack is highly correlate…
I'm gonna be honest, you sound like a problem employee. The companies not using Microsoft, are using Google. Which in my experience is equally or measurably worse. Just personal data points, but every avowed Microsoft hater I've ever worked with has been... difficult. Like a-drag-on-the-team-because-he-refuses-to-use-company-tools difficult. Edit: How does an aged post on this site go from +4 to -1 in the span of a f…
Windows is a parasitic drag-on-the-team.
Now, if Microsoft creates a Microsoft Linux desktop OS, that would be something.
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I see you build a case for traditional MS product in Exchange, yet this issue is about Sharepoint. Just like with Windows, Microsoft has built a moat with Exchange, but the question is why do all the companies buy into their full ecosystem, especially for anything relating to web technologies (you even bring up Exchange Web Services), because this they do really badly, and Sharepoint seems to be the worst. However, I…
I was running millions of accounts using Postfix/Dovecot on shared-nothing storage with a single MUA-facing endpoint and complex policy options, and that was over a decade ago. Fastmail today would be much bigger again, and they’re on CMU Cyrus. 150k is rookie numbers. Perhaps that was meant ironically to satirise mediocre enterprise thinking?
Cool. I did that with qmail in 1998 on a couple of Ultra 5s.
Try managing a calendar or booking resources.
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I'm gonna be honest, you sound like a problem employee. The companies not using Microsoft, are using Google. Which in my experience is equally or measurably worse. Just personal data points, but every avowed Microsoft hater I've ever worked with has been... difficult. Like a-drag-on-the-team-because-he-refuses-to-use-company-tools difficult. Edit: How does an aged post on this site go from +4 to -1 in the span of a f…
Windows is a parasitic drag-on-the-team. Now, if Microsoft creates a Microsoft Linux desktop OS, that would be something.
That's basically WSL.
My work laptop is Windows, and the only native applications I run on it are a web browser, Zoom, and the company's VPN software. Everything else runs inside WSL.
I greatly prefer Debian to Homebrew, so if I can't run actual Linux, this is (to me) superior to trying to develop on a Mac.
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Companies that don't use Outlook? All five of them? I've seen companies with varying levels of MS product integration but Outlook is pretty foundational. Now, if a company says they use SharePoint or Teams to store their documentation, run to the hills. Wikis or bust.
Wild to see the different experiences here. I haven't worked for a company that uses Outlook in 20+ years. Recently it's all been gmail/google workspaces.
Similar experience; I haven’t had to use Outlook since the late 90s, and even then only for about a year.
Every company I worked for before or since just used IMAP.