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The message is right-on, but the messenger is a hypocrite. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/attacking-rival-google-says-microsofts-hold-government-security-proble-rcna22159 Get the Frightful Five out of government, education, and the Non-profit sector. Let the 'enterprise' sink or swim, I don't really care, but save the citizens the burden of these colossal corporate assholes.
I wrote this 6 years ago: https://davelane.nz/mshostage , but it's only now, when one of Microsoft's self-interested rivals calls attention to it, that it becomes mainstream. Allowing your business to become dependent on any of the Frightful Five's software or service offerings is extremely foolish, existentially so.
It's far far worse to have your gov't dependent on Frightful Five rubbish, and implicitly requiring he Tangata (the people) to use it is inexcusable. As is cavalierly entrusting our data to these corporations.
@lightweight You should drop the "Frightful Five" in favor of a more generic label, because the spotlight perpetrators will change. 80s me would think you were talking about IBM, AOL, AT&T, Microsoft, and Oracle. Only one of those is still in the list, although AT&T might make a comeback.
@lwriemen I mostly focus on them because of their national-economy-sized market-caps and disproportionate influence. They literally have the ability to 'turn off' most countries (causing them to cease to exist in most meaningful ways, whether due to malice or incompetence) in the world today. If that's not "frightful", I don't know what is. I got the term from this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/technology/techs-frightful-five-theyve-got-us.html