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by rkagerer 457 days ago
Not surprised, given its ancestry. This isn't a critique, so much as an observation.

Microsoft's corporate culture evolved during some two decades under a very different threat model & security posture. A lot of the platform's foundations originate from that era, and although they've made significant strides you still see some of their other products struggle in this aspect as well (eg. good security primitives are there but they're sloppy in their default configuration and intuitability). Compare it to a platform that spent its youth growing up in a more actively hostile environment (like Bitcoin).