This isn't just for stuff sitting in an office in Pax River, either. Both the US and Royal Navies run XP on *ships*.https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/news/a27108/hms-queen-elizabeth-windows-xp/ …
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Microsoft has long made a fortune off of being directly involved in weapons development. They're not just selling software to engineers. They are designing and supporting systems that are literally in weapons platforms.
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There are so many stories like this with MS through the decades.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-16/microsoft-wins-lucrative-cloud-deal-with-intelligence-community …
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When the Google stuff happened, I cautioned against considering it too big a win. Google was never a serious player in this space. Companies you've never heard of are dragging in 8 and 9 figure hauls. But so too is MS.pic.twitter.com/F2a565r1G4
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That snippet is from:https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/06/the-high-stakes-battle-for-the-pentagons-winner-take-all-cloud-contract/ …
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My point in this is that we can celebrate tech solidarity organizing and should but we gotta be real real honest about scope.
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In direct action training you learn that the most effective direct actions have a few common elements: - a clear ask - a person or entity who can be held responsible - and a willingness to make the cost of noncompliance overly burdensome
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Given that Microsoft has a 15 year history of building tech for DHS, that has to factor into your solidarity action. What does a measurable outcome look like? What tools do you have to make the cost unbearable?
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It looks like the current activism is a direct response to the heinous activity on the border, which narrows the scope a lot. The goal, it seems, is to show that "ICE is so toxic that even MS is pulling out", which should help with this more narrow humanitarian crisis.
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