> And those access elevations will be tracked and audited, just like at any other organization that handles sensitive data.
But surely you can see that saying this is still the same as just saying "trust us". It's very, very hard to trust Microsoft.
But surely you can see that saying this is still the same as just saying "trust us". It's very, very hard to trust Microsoft.
And the number of markets Microsoft completes in now is tiny. This isn't the 90s where Microsoft competed in slews of consumer and business markets. The potential upside from the Cloud team slurping up secrets from competitors in literally ANY other business segment, is dwarfed by the losses that would hit MS.
Now of course that doesn't mean some corrupt fool in sales won't risk destroying the company so he can make his yearly bonus (that very thing has brought down companies before!), but Microsoft internally has a lot of motivations to ensure that doesn't happen.
So, don't trust Microsoft saying "trust us". Trust Microsoft being greedy and wanting to keep growing the cash cow that is Azure Cloud.
Rergardless, my point is that Microsoft saying that they have audits and controls in place is exactly the same as them saying "trust us". They're just saying "trust that we have effective controls in place".
What an organization can (and should) do is to behave in a way that earns people's trust over time. Microsoft actually had a window of opportunity to do this. They even made a very public campaign proclaiming how they weren't like the Microsoft of old and were more trustworthy than they used to be. And for a while, I even thought that perhaps a real culture change really did happen. But their behavior (especially around Windows and Office) is uncannily similar to that of other companies of questionable trustworthiness.
The utterly massive enterprise market that values security and privacy and also pays Microsoft oodles of money says otherwise.
Also, people aren't enterprises. Microsoft doesn't treat people like they treat enterprises.
And frankly given the monopolistic nature of the business, there are a lot of enterprises that pay for microsoft's services because they don't have the power to make the decision not to
https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/DocumentPage/6ee23fc7-20d...
In any case, it doesn't much matter. The threads I'm in here are pretty much just me saying I don't trust Microsoft and others saying that I should, so I'll just bow out and leave it at that: we have different opinions.