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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/415992/immigration-nz-in-disarray-over-remote-working-as-new-law-offers-unbridled-power The whole model of remote working required by Microsoft platforms is absurdly inefficient, costly, and almost impossible to secure. At some point, accidentally, someone with a clue will start working for gov't and ask the obvious question: why have we paid so eye wateringly much for such incredibly inadequate solutions... for, like, decades? Then, perhaps, things might change. Until that time, though, the suckers continue to make life difficult & horrendously expensive.
@lightweight I’ve wondering about this too; it seems switching costs are high for organizations and people are anxious about change. I’m curious what you mean though by “the whole model of remote working required by Microsoft”. What does a different model look like?
@mpanhans the whole desktop domain model employed by Windows (and forced upon any Macs & Linux machines that want to participate) and the VPN/RDP practice are all extremely heavy & dated. A modern org should be 100% web based in its systems (fully client-server), including file sharing (if they insist on using shared filesystems, they should use WebDAV with something like NextCloud. A file sync option is also there). Really clever organisations will have a "single source" policy w/ git :)
@lightweight Thanks for this reply! Somehow I didn't get a notification and only see your answer a week later. This is really interesting. It really seems technology-wise, we are stuck in a bad equilibrium because of network effects in many ways. And if we could all easily switch to a new technology model, everyone would be better off and more productive.
