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Where is Microsoft azure in? 2A02:C7C:50C6:1400:98F2:41D4:B138:E161 (talk) 13:32, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

An advertisement for Microsoft? You should really get some information about the world, technology, and why there is no reason not to believe them; not only are they sincere and friendly, but many C-levels are engineers, and the CTO hosts a podcast, not at all about Microsoft, and Azure CTO too, and Brad Smith, or they communicate about technical topics or explain their products, never bashing anyone, in blog posts usually... They do not react to all the bull*** the "news" reports, or even written on Wikipedia, on tech; it's full of lies and tales... I do not give 10€ per month anymore. Sadly, if this is to read complete nonsense, I prefer doing it for free... but also they provide tons of materials to learn about many topics... They are interesting technically; the only big tech that is interesting actually.

The organization and spirit are a big part of the success, so this means people, passionate and smart; no other company develops products at such scale, with thousands of developers or other roles, and it took about 40 years... now they mastered it, and they are also one of the biggest, maybe the biggest, open source contributor. They gave C# or things like original WPF, a framework that is still a reference, and dotnet is something never seen on Unix clones or on any OS... They have always been innovating in all directions; now, it is not common at all, but they also open source most of their innovations because there is no book with instructions to follow; there never was. Nothing; no book with a complete OS to copy, no network protocols to solve Azure scalability needs, no iPhone to invent smartphones, no example of C or C++ compilers to replicate, etc. Azure is a unique one of the biggest human-made achievements, ...

You should also inform yourself about how they handle requests from that great democracy's administration... What you mention is the law... they do not have to acknowledge that they respect the law. The government is the one allowing itself to invade anyone's privacy, including outside the borders of that great democratic people's republic... I suggest you start with BitLocker; there is a famous reply. Then, they are by law, like any other company, required to comply, but they don't cooperate, and they require the demand to contain all the information and decisions that the law mandates. So we're safe... criminals should be worried.

The part you are quoting is as bad as the rest of the article, but at least, if you know what a fabric is, no need for quotes, you'll understand a few things.

What is a cloud computing system? Azure Sphere is not a Linux distro... It is a security platform.

This article is worthless anyway. 2A02:2788:10C4:5E:7486:603:53A:8D0F (talk) 06:33, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your comment, but a lot of this article reads like an advertisement written by Microsoft. This is now being promoted by Microsoft as a "linux" but in reality it is a cloud computing system, as the article says: "Microsoft Azure utilizes a specialized operating system with the same name to power its "fabric layer".[54] This cluster is hosted at Microsoft's data centers and is responsible for managing computing and storage resources and allocating them to applications running on the Microsoft Azure platform." In addition, the article notes: "Microsoft has acknowledged that the U.S. government can access data even if the hosting company is not American and the data is outside the U.S.[80][81][contradictory] To address concerns related to privacy and security, Microsoft has established the Microsoft Azure Trust Center." This article needs some attention from someone who knows about Microsoft Azure. As for me, I don't need to know anything more about it than that it comes from Microsoft. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Negligent Cybersecurity practices

Should facts about Microsoft negligent cybersecurity practices be hidden from this article? 84.78.242.206 (talk) 19:21, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

yes, the article is specific about the azure platform, while the information provided is about all of microsoft's cybersecurity and not just the azure in question, and should be placed

the information in question which is valid, on the Microsoft Caorporation wiki. 45.181.33.196 (talk) 00:53, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As you can read in the referenced article, Microsoft is not being negligent in all products, but mostly in Azure. We need to keep a reference to Microsoft negligent behaviour only in the products were they are being negligent. ~~ Jmsrobinson (talk) 07:26, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft is not at all negligent with security; it's one of the many tales continuously repeated, and "tech news" is now impossible to trust.

In reality, Microsoft is a leader in many fields of cybersecurity (and this comes from Gartner, Forrester, or many other sources, not them or me). They have a webpage about security: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security or information on vulnerabilities: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide

It's a serious topic, and there is no award for the most vulnerable software of the year (but the most exploited vulnerabilities are sometimes listed), so there is this https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php I fully agree this is not correct or making much sense; moreover, they already changed the way the table is built (distributions, compared with a kernel, an entire version of Windows Server — so hundreds of components, Flash, Firefox), but it does show vulnerabilities touch every software; it isn't considered true for a long time, but open or closed source does not change anything, but there is something that Apple and Adobe are suffering from; they are champions; Apple is just lacking skill and knowledge, and Adobe... maybe they still use Macromedia Director to build their apps. So, in total, not per year, (Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu are in the top 5; let's say GNU is the top 5, not specific distros): Android, then the Linux kernel, then in 6th position, Windows Server 2016... Most of the time, macOS and iOS are at the top and won in 2015, but Apple has no portal with plenty of information... Just one laconic page with the same text as the official CVE, nothing else. Otherwise, in 2016, the first Microsoft product was 19th, Windows 10, actively developed back then. So tales and beliefs have to be verified; it's always full of surprises. Also, this is software as usual; this year, so far, 39281 vulnerabilities, have been received by the Nist..

Now, maybe it would be better, for all software, to inform of all the negligence related to security for that software... 2A02:2788:10C4:5E:7486:603:53A:8D0F (talk) 07:59, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jmsrobinson, your sentence is inappropriate for multiple reasons. It violates WP:UNDUE by disproportionately highlighting criticism without a balanced inclusion of other opinions. The use of language like "has been criticized" veers into MOS:WEASEL territory. Also, the sentence is inconsistent with WP:LEAD, as it lacks necessary context and specificity. This is not to say that negligent security practices should not be mentioned on Wikipedia; rather, the issue is with the manner of their presentation here — a single, problematic sentence lacking in context and due weight. intforce (talk) 09:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please, include other opinions. We should not hide facts about the hack Microsoft had and the negligent behaviour they enagage. I can move it to another section if you think this is not important enought for the lead. Jmsrobinson (talk) 11:43, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jmsrobinson, before editing the page again, I suggest you read the relevant policies and seriously address the concerns that have been brought up. You can't expect others to fix the problematic material you'd like to put up there. Please do not engage in an edit war. intforce (talk) 11:52, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please, read relevant policies, do not remove it again until reaching a consensus. Jmsrobinson (talk) 12:03, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Response to third opinion request:

I am declining your request for a third opinion because there are too many people involved already in this discussion. Best of luck. Rublamb (talk) 16:00, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Logo needs to be updated ?

The blue A is not the current logo for Microsoft Azure, as far as I understood. Please verify and adapt. see e.g. [1]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/trademarks 2003:C5:CF47:2800:A82F:A392:243:7A04 (talk) 21:53, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]