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Comment by helsinkiandrew | Hacker News Reader

Microsoft 360 has over 300 million corporate users - trusting it with email, document management, and collaboration etc. It’s the defacto standard in larger companies especially in banking, medicine and finance that have more rigorous compliance regulations.

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And MS already showed the customers shouldn’t trust them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408776

Maybe it’s a good idea to spread your data and not putting it in one place, if you really need to use the cloud

The administrative segments that decide to sell their firstborn to Microsoft all have their heads in the clouds. They'll pay Microsoft to steal their data and resell it and they'll defend their decisions making beyond their own demise.

As such Microsoft is doing the right choice in outright stealing data for whatever purpose. It will have no real consequences.

I think the case could be made that “spreading your data” is exactly what you don’t want to do, you’re increasing your attack surface.

Not like most had a choice, they already had office documents and windows, what else were they going to pick?

Your historical pile of millions of MSOffice documents is an ocean sized moat.

Surely MS wouldn't abuse that trust.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42245124

IT policy flick of the switch disables that, such as at my organization. That was instead intended to snag single, non-corporate, user accounts (still horrible, but I mean to convey that MS at no point in all that expected a company's IT department to actually leave that training feature enabled in policy).

This was debunked within hours, as commented on that thread last week.

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