In which case people would just use putty or cygwin or openssh instead

Or they'll expect remote servers to implement whatever changes Microsoft will require for interoperatibility. We've been through this in the 1990-ies, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer was introduced with subtle incompatibilities in HTML-rendering...

Firstly I can see why you had to write "attempts", because it seems none of those actually killed anything

Well, a successful attempt is still an attempt: Netscape died. Kerberos survived because the world wised up by then — this very site had helped by hosting an anonymous coward's post documenting Microsoft's "extensions" to Kerberos so developers world-wide could implement them without signing an NDA of their own.

if they create an incompatibility here it is going to completely break their system making it such that Linux, BSD, iOS, Android, etc... can no longer connect to it.

Or not — depending on the nature of incompatibilities and the marketing/advertising... For example, the regular connections will work, but compressed ones will not (either at all, or requiring client to support some new compression algorithm). Or port-forwarding will be disabled (or not working at all). Or WINCH will not be sent to the remote servers, when the local window is resized — or, in the other direction, arriving WINCH will be ignored or misinterpreted. The possibilities for both honest errors and deliberate breakage are immense...

But let's not kid ourselves: the domestic propaganda has been going on since before 2013.

Citations? Given how enthusiastically US media supports the party currently in power, I doubt, you'll find any.

Not until there is another regime-change and dissent becomes patriotic (rather than racist) again.

PuTTy is already an incompatible mess all of it's own. It even has it's own special format for keys

The second sentence implies some other incompatibilities, in addition to special format for keys. I'm not aware of anything else — could you list examples?

Well fuck me, time to look up the command to convert that stupid shit again

PuTTY's entire source-code is , whereas Microsoft's own implementation of Kerberos was binary-only and developers had to sign an NDA to learn, how to interoperate with it. I linked to that above — the story was all the rage right here on /. 15 years ago...

I have no idea why no one bothered porting OpenSSH to Windows before

Probably, because, PuTTY provided a perfectly satisfactory solution...

What exactly are you scared about?

That, for example, in order to ssh into a remote Windows system you'll have to use Microsoft's ssh-client — because they'll use some funky cipher/digest combination or some other "extension". They did it to Kerberos before...

Or that interactive logins will only work on certain terminal emulators — because nothing else will be able to properly emulate powershell's window — just imagine the termcaps entry...

In the link I gave there is a large list of Microsoft's earlier attempts to kill a standard by first adopting it — read it up...

For a job as an Internet Troll that would probably be counted as a benefit.

Huh? You must be thinking of sincere volunteer trolls trolling for fun. That's not, whom we are discussing here. These folks are hired to spread the "party line". And to a recipient any message seems more convincing, when expressed well and by someone, perceived to be a person of quality.

The article I read (itself in Russian) mentioned a older man hired by the "troll-factory" to help improve the language and grammar of rank-and-file workers — and how depressingly difficult he found his job to be.

Not this time. SSH isn't a company and no one owns it.

Kerberos was not either.

MS is just trying to promote the feature of not having to install PuTTY

Just replace "PuTTY" with "Netscape" and you'll understand, what I'm talking about. Hopefully...

Microsoft has announced plans for native support for SSH in Windows.

Now I'm scared... We may, once again, see Microsoft's approach of Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish in action...

Gentlemen, we've given the prototype the codename 'Bennett Haselton.' At present it is capable of trolling up to 3.5 pbps across over a million sites at once.

+1 Funny, but Bennett is posting in English, whereas the article linked to by the AC above mentions, that the military's 2011 plans explicitly excluded English because that could violate the ban on government propaganda used on Americans: "none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology".

Russia, of course, has no such inhibitions and most of its trolls post in Russian — to be read by Russian-speakers inside and outside the country. Finding Russians capable of properly posting in English is about as difficult as finding Americans to post in Russian. Worse, Russians who have the sufficient command of a foreign language tend to be able to find better employment. In fact, the article about these trolls, that I read earlier, contained lamentations about how bad their Russian is too...

Our Lavrenty Beria was a curator of Russian nuclear project

Obviously, as head of KGB — because your nuclear project had as much work for your spies as it did for scientists.

My point, however, was that Beria antedated McCarthy by decades. (That he is also responsible for thousands of dead , whereas McCarthy can only be blamed for a few scores having lost their jobs, went unmentioned.)

Well, hint.

Please, stop talking in riddles. Make your accusations and provide citations, or go away. Put up or shut up, so to speak...