Never attribute to malice what incompetence can explain, or however that goes. Except for YellowKey. That was obviously a backdoor to get into bitlocker encrypted drives for either higher-upper law enforcement or their intelligence agencies. No one has presented another explanation that makes sense.

It's more that it adds to the statement that Microsoft are a marketing company that happens to market software. They're more focused on profit and they benefit from there being less zero days in the media, so they do everything they can to not have cves flying around while also doing the least amount of work possible.

Whatever is dropped in July is going to be interesting though, it's been very hyped up.

Schleswig-Holstein (germany) has moved entire gov workforce (ca. 40k people) off of sharepoint, outlook, office, onedrive. And now start to move from windows to linux. Slow, steady, training and helping all the way. Material generated for this gan also used by other state if want.

Ich liebe es.

Depends where and who. Other governments are the biggest single segment MS has to worry about

In many cases Linux was never an option

So, the good news is that your stolen laptop can be decrypted. Nice. That's the main argument for bitlocker, so your stolen laptop can't be decrypted.