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Comment by jon-wood | Hacker News Reader

Classic Register reporting there, managing to turn what I assume is actually a fairly regular occurrence of having a meeting with companies they work closely with into a conspiracy. Of course the press aren't invited. Do MS often invite the press to sit in on meetings?

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It is a fairly regular occurrence, but I think a global outage of this scope warrants a _little_ bit more transparency. These are not some small private companies, they are huge corporations which supply software that runs a lot of infrastructure and have a big impact on society as a whole. Maybe we should have access in such cases. Or throw them out of public/government systems and refuse further contracts until they are more transparent.

If you invite the press to the summit, the real meeting will happen somewhere else, because productive meetings do not happen in public. Public stages are for posturing and soundbites.

You should really watch live, unedited footage of parliament, or local council committees, or anything of that nature. You'll see that most of these meetings are in fact boringly productive and void of anything "entertaining".

Microsoft called it a summit and invited companies and government. Whether their complaints are valid or not, the article's characterization seems more accurate to me than "a meeting with companies".

One assumes the information divulged there has a public interest angle if it is about the most common operating system, one of the largest cloud providers, etc.

I have a strong standing dislike for Microsoft, but I’ve gotta agree here.

It sounds like they’re having a summit with partners and… those are typically never open to the public, so um?

Are we going to start renaming meetings to “conferences” and then complaining they’re all closed-doors?

El Reg is a clickbait rag, but this isn’t fun snark like they often do - it’s just dumb.

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