Old grumpy software architect and engineer. I create, perform, and teach music. I´m married, have kids, dogs, dabble in fine arts, and talk psychology, culture, and politics.
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Microsoft has a history of doing so, both with Minecraft customers and others. They just don’t care.
9·11 months ago“Could”.
30·1 year agoNo, they aren’t. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.
With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.
Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they’d create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.
Wouldn’t it face the exact same security issues as VBA, with drive-by installs of obfuscated malware and executions of arbitrary code?
Sure! It won’t comply, though.