They already said it is OS agnostic. MS 2020 is far away from MS 2010.
With regards to the auditing need, can you audit a CPU down to the silicon level today?
With regards to the auditing need, can you audit a CPU down to the silicon level today?
I haven't seen evidence of this. Their OS is at least as user hostile as before and they desperately seek developers.
If I have a specific technical problem I have to slay hundreds of sales people before I find someone with real expertise.
That they aren't as dominant as before is probably due to the fact that they have few developers and need to regain some. Financially Office is probably the largest income and sure, the standard corporate AD solutions are wide spread. But their cloud tech seems to be restricted to very large companies and I haven't seen much of it.
WSL and .NET as open-source?
Their R&D budget in 2019 was twice that in 2010, meanwhile sales and marketing budget increased by 30%.
Their Productivity and Business Processes (which includes Office, Dynamics, ERP and LinkedIn) accounted for 1/3 of global sales revenue in 2019.
Sure, there are some things that have stayed the same in the last 10 years, but of all the FAANGS I would argue that MS is the company that changed the most in the last 10 years.
I'm reminded of Christopher Domas' excellent talk/s on finding undocumented X86 instructions, if there are any backdoors in a modern processor they'll probably under some hyper-obscure (register, stack etc.) state even if they did use an undocumented instruction.
And to your point about documentation vs implementation, it would not be difficult for anyone, to state one thing in the documentation and produce another thing, unless perhaps, you give access to the manufacturing facilities.