Rule number 1: don't get caught.

Don’t trust Microslop!

Brad smith already lied about divesting from the IDF last year, only to increase support and spread it to a handful of other Israeli defense orgs. They are still supporting Israel with what they don’t say, don’t believe them.

https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

That's a start, now do the same with whoever at Microsoft is responsible for Windows' surveillance of the rest of the world too!

Is it being a conspiracy theorist to think that they might have allowed it with the intention of making this exact move if it was discovered?

So Microsoft realised that people are pissed off about the genocide shit, and decided to try and distance itself a bit from all the genociding they've been complicit in, and will likely continue to be complicit in. The pageantry is likely to work on US investors, who mostly just care about money anyhow.

It's probably partly being done because Microsoft sees all these foreign countries saying "We're gonna ditch US tech" because of all the bullshit coming out of America for the past few years -- and the likelihood that it'll continue straight through 2028, and then resume again every time the Republicans get in power, with an utterly impotent democratic party as their foil -- a democratic party that couldn't even hold the people responsible for an attempted coup accountable, instead allowing those very people back into power.

When your government's gone authoritarian / fascist, with your complete support, you shouldn't be allowed to 'PR spin" your way out of it. Trump's approach is demanding people/companies side with "America first", or "the world". If you choose the former, you can't pretend like you give a shit about the latter.

Paraphrasing Veep:

"Satya Nadella keep track of all the important decisions in the company to ensure that all contracts comply with our commitment towards privacy. That being said he knew nothing about it and once he found out he immediately fired his number five director and a couple of sixes."

Too late you greedy fucks, we know what you are, Microslop.

A rare non-fuck-up from MS. Wow.

Don’t be fooled by the title. The problem was not the surveillance, the nature of the data collected or even less the ongoing genocide.

According to Globes, a Microsoft investigative team began work last month over concerns that the Israeli subsidiary was exposing the company to legal liability in Europe. The Azure servers used by the Israeli government to store surveillance data were based in Europe, potentially putting Microsoft at risk from scrutiny by EU regulators.

After investigating Haimovich and his team, Microsoft ousted the GM and other, unnamed senior staff at the subsidiary.

Good.

I'm genuinely surprised

They're just minimizing backlash with a fall guy

*checks watch*