The reporter was just butthurt about not getting a scoop and decided to write an article complaining about PR practices in place of an actual story.
Really like the click bait title though, it's a nice touch. /s
>Windows is the only platform with a customer commitment to investigate reported security issues and proactively update impacted devices as soon as possible,
EDIT and this
>The time has come for Microsoft vulnerability disclosure communications to mute the marketers and let the security engineers do the talking instead.
I found it funny to be honest
But in practice, here's what happened. In 2002 Chairman Bill said:
An internal Microsoft e-mail tells the software
giant's employees that security and privacy are
the most important issues for the company's products.
And yet, 15 years later, we're discussing yet another 0day. And Win 10's built in spyware is the absolute opposite of "privacy".
I'd rather judge Microsoft on their actual historical record, and not on whether Cutler's initial design for NT was secure and resilient.
They might have good reasons for doing that, but it isn't true to say they "proactively update impacted devices as soon as possible".
[1] https://www.engadget.com/2010/09/10/microsoft-celebrates-win...
That was Uncle Fester's Microsoft. That behavior was an extension of Ballmer's pugilistic personality.
Today's Microsoft is just as tone-deaf, but in a different respect. For the life of me I can't understand why Nadella thinks that their recent behavior wrt. Win 10 is a good idea. E.g. rebooting user's machines during presentations, having spyware that it's not possible to disable, advertising in the OS, etc.
Unless you know a higher-up exec, like Mary Jo Foley or Paul Thurrott does, for instance, you're unlikely to get a real answer for a security question. For a journalist, writing what you think happened, and then waiting for Microsoft to react, contact you, and tell you what really happened is likely a much more effective strategy to get something out of Microsoft.