Yep. Enterprises whose demise would basically benefit everybody. Essentially a cancer on society.

Doing that sounds like an extreme case of medical malpractice? Maybe criminally negligent homicide as a follow-up to that?

This is really the standard expectation and MS consistently delivers. That is when they do not deliver worse quality.

While I agree that LLMs are somewhat useful in a much, much narrower scope than hyped, I am not sure the scam/hype instigators have any agenda besides get-rich-quick. Never attribute to a hidden agenda that which can be nicely attributed to greed. Or something.

That is probably the most likely outcome. Some tech experts need to retain real skills though or it all comes crashing down. LLMs cannot design run, or maintain tech, despite all claims to the contrary.

Yes. Well, make that "many". But incredible as that sounds given some comments, many people here are wayyyy above average in tech understanding and insight. Obviously, we have the occasional keyword-trigger-only-no-insight MAGA and some tech fanatics, but generally we are insulting each other on a comparatively (if not absolute) pretty high insight level here.

My guess would be some other agency asked for it and the IRS is a smokescreen.

Looks just more AI scamming to me. "Poised to explode" = "we hope to pump before we dump".

Well, I am included to believe they mismanaged things badly before, but I would not rule out "AI" playing a significant in their doubtless upcoming demise.

Yep. They are probably in denial because some c-levels do not want to admit having screwed up badly. Let's see whether they are still around in 5 years.

While this is not completely correct, it is also not completely wrong. The thing is that password guessing attacks are generally high effort attacks because they have to be customized. Far easier to wait until Microsoft (or Google or Apple) mess up and then get in with a generic attack. At least Microsoft does it often enough. Or use mass-phishing for another no-password-required attack that works reasonably well in practice.

Best door-code ever!

Because the design flaws in TMI 1/2 are not fixed. And the thing has aged a lot since TMI 2 partially melted its core and very nearly blew up Fukushima-style. I recommend reading the accident report for a few sleepless nights.

Even worse: Most of the end-user computers run just one OS and most of the Mobile devices do so too. Ideal conditions for an internet worm to take over everything within a few hours. Houses of cards standing on sand in a location with frequent strong winds ...

Well, the human race will eventually learn a lesson here. Maybe it will be a tiny bit mire careful afterwards. Or not.

To add to that my settings of "telemetry: off" even survived a downgrade from Win10 to Win11. (Gets displayed in the settings, but cannot be set there. Needs some obscure "organizational" settings, which still can be done locally.) That means MS did not dare reset it and for good reasons. It would have been an actual crime for them to do so.