Re: Windows containers
Ok so plus 24MB for the .NET core runtime install or plus 80MB for the full .NET framework.
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Office upload centre is needed for collaborative editing only. And yes it's veeeeerrrry slow with large documents.
If you don't need to edit documents at the same time as other users, remove the tick box from "Use Office to sync your files" in the Office Upload Centre system tray app and it will save files and sync many times faster.
"and it would be too much trouble to migrate to something else."
SQL Server AAG can replace even Oracle RAC server. And its often relatively easy to migrate compared to most other options.
Everywhere I have worked in the last decade I have set Oracle to disinvest if it wasn't already. Horrible company, with horribly complex and insecure products.
"In previous times, this damage was US aircraft taking out our vehicles. their soldiers trying to shoot ours and so on."
As my father said to me:
When the English shot, the Germans ducked.
When the Germans shot, the English ducked.
When the Americans shot, everybody ducked.
"So nothing is secure, and up to date corporate expertise is either nil or thin, and probably eroding monthly."
Who says nothing is secure? It's pretty easy to lock down O365. If one guy is managing the requirements of 4,000 users (quite possible if you automate leavers / joiners) then this would suggest that he is pretty well trained. And if he leaves tomorrow, because O365 is a completely standardised solution you could have a replacement contractor up and running in a day or two.
"If Microsoft's MFA was vaguely sensibly granular, and worked with cheap(ish) fobs or smart cards then it would be a help."
Microsoft MFA works as a free application on your mobile device. No need for $$ fobs and smartcards.
"Enforce MFA for using a workstation within the corporate network? Not so much? "
Yes it will - you authenticate against Azure AD and use single sign-on to on premises resources.
"Enforce MFA to allow a user's email application to connect to email on their mobile phone? Erm, this is getting awkward"
No it isn't - Microsoft MFA does that out of the box.
"Being able to set user application admin parameters on an application you do not install and monitor, running on a box you do not control, in a security domain yoiu do not control does not mean you control it... it means you can request that various things happen."
You do install OneDrive, you centrally control all policies, it is on operating systems that you control, and on client devices that you control. Otherwise it wont work - unless you want it to work in those circumstance. And even then you can still control BYOD systems via Intune policies, etc. that will be required as part of logging into OneDrive.
"ODF support? Yes, the trolls tell you that Microsoft's support for ODF is "the best" - reality begs to differ. MS Exchange and Outlook still do not speak carddav and caldav"
Those are not part of ODF.
Why would Microsoft care when the native MAPI / ActiveSync solutions are way better and pretty much everyone uses Exchange. There are third party plugins if you need this.
"taking a potentially sensitive document out of corporate control "
OneDrive is not out of corporate control. It can be fully locked down and you can apply DLP policies, backup policies, etc.
"Is it possible to granularly restrict such data leak services"
Yes. As even a basic knowledge of O365 would tell you.
"Cost is another problem. Want Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), for example? This service checks email attachments and links for malware, blocks malicious files in SharePoint online, and attempts to detect phishing attacks."
Exchange Online Anti-Malware also does that for free. Office 365 ATP proactively screens for unknown and evolving threats in real time by “detonating” potential carriers (email attachments, embedded URLs, files linked to malicious websites, etc.) in a secure, sandbox environment.
"Would this be the election in which 270 humans died, literally *died*, because they were counting votes until they died?"
Seeing as there were over 7 million election workers and that the elections and counting were a lengthy process there is nothing here to prove that wasn't due to natural causes?
" the runtime used makes little difference"
I call bollocks. The .Net runtime just works, is fully backwards compatible and there are only 2 versions to install (3.5 or 4.7+) that cover all other versions.
With Java there are dozens of versions that sometimes have to coexist - which are commonly not backwards compatible. And you can only have ONE set as the browser default version! Not to mention a couple of orders of magnitude more security holes and generally inferior performance. Its a sucky mess in comparison.
"how is MS extinguishing "Linux on Desktop"? "
Well in most corporations there are relatively few users of Linux on the desktop - primarily developers and niche requirements. And maintaining those often dual systems for a subset of users is expensive both in using extra hardware / infrastructure and in having to support, maintain and patch 2 entirely different OSs.
Now corporates are instead deploying WSL under Windows 10 and binning that parallel world. Happy bean counters. And in my experience mostly happy Linux users because it makes their life easier too.
So you will now commonly not get the seed Linux environments that could potentially be pilots for wider Linux desktop usage cases. Chicken dinner for Microsoft.
"It's all about getting the Right Judge. Which in turn means getting the Right Lawyers, to fix it up for you.
Harder if the other side is also sufficiently well-lawyered, which I guess must be what you meant."
That's how it works in the colonies, not in Great Britain. Whilst you can certainly Lawyer-up in the UK, being rich doesn't otherwise influence the judicial process. Hence why lots of say Russian and other international business disputes are heard in GB.
"Therefore in water with Cherenkov radiation the electrons are traveling faster than the speed of light."
No they are not.
"Compare high speed electrons from a reactor in free space to light in a vacuum chamber on the surface of the earth. The free space electrons will be faster."
No, no they wont. They both travel at a maximum of ~ 300,000 km/s