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Microsoft Kills Off Its Trustworthy Computing Group
An anonymous reader writes Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group is headed for the axe, and its responsibilities will be taken over either by the company's Cloud & Enterprise Division or its Legal & Corporate Affairs group. Microsoft's disbanding of the group represents a punctuation mark in the industry's decades-long conversation around trusted computing as a concept. The security center of gravity is moving away from enterprise desktops to cloud and mobile and 'things,' so it makes sense for this security leadership role to shift as well. According to a company spokesman, an unspecified number of jobs from the group will be cut. Also today, Microsoft has announced the closure of its Silicon Valley lab. Its research labs in Redmond, New York, and Cambridge (in Massachusetts) will pick up some of the closed lab's operations.
I'm personally pretty anti-microsoft and a fan of google's ecosystem of products.
But if the new CEO succeeds at changing the organization, it'd be great to see a third big vendor in the market as an alternative to Google and Apple. Windows Phone sucks now, but who knows what the future brings. Microsoft has been riding their past successes for a long time, too long.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Oh sure, a lot of people on /. would like to see MS crater; but be careful what you wish for. Do you really want AAPL to be the A no. 1 tech company for EVERYTHING, including your workstation?
I bash Microsoft here as much as anyone else - but No, I don't want Microsoft to go away.
I want MIcrosoft to stop making awful Operating systems. We know they can do it, because XP was excellent, W7 almost as good.
I want Microsoft to not have Updates bitch up computers.
I want Microsoft to change their "We know what's best for you dammit!" attitude, and ignore feedback. Both Vista and W8 had people begging them not to go there.
If you've read enough of Slashdot, you'll have noticed that every complaint about MSFT is attacked by "energetic fans" shouting that the complaint is invalid, that the person complaining is an idiot. How long is that supposed to work?
After moving to Unix-like OS' I apparenly stopped being an idiot, because I have none of the same problems I had on any Microsoft OS - and that includes XP, which I liked. Like I said, eventually people will get tired of that crap.
What I would like to see is a vibrant Microsoft, one that understands the customer, and the market. Why, that might even entice me to buy another computer with their Operating system on it.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
"MS Security Updates notifications and the Patch Update communications" (TwC Security Comms") has been moved over to corporate marketing (CorpCom) under Frank X. Shaw, notorious for his distain for security and his repeated attempts to kill any comms that admitted any flaw/vuln/issue ever. Same guy who dismisses all vuln researchers as "criminals" -- including all partners who do bug bounties or consultants who produce workarounds for customers .
After today, don't expect to get any honesty out of Microsoft re vulns for another decade.
TwC was the best producer and best hope for continued security improvements at Microsoft, and Nadella killed it.
Those who got laid off had it good - a payout and a graceful exit before the destruction and shame. I can't stand to stay under the new regime, and I know of entire teams that are interviewing and helping each other with referrals outside the company. God help those who stay.