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If you are taking recommendations, I wouldn't recommend installing them at all. You could ask the authors to support a platform which has a better security model.

(Given that there are open-source and robuster-than-Windows platforms freely available.).

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Cool, I'll just email MS and ask them to port Sharepoint to BSD.

Good job making an honest and good recommendation sound naive.

How is 'just ditch Windows' an honest and good recommendation?

That was a terrible recommendation. Proposing a solution when you know nothing about the situation nearly always results in a pointless solution.

Suggesting that the best way to securely install Windows packages is to use a different operating system smacks of immaturity, and is obviously not a practical solution in Windows environments.

A better suggestion might be: If you do not trust it, run it in a VM/sandbox.

That might be a good idea, assuming they do listen to user feedback.

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