Comment by luke5441
2 days ago
The ultimate goal is to make customers spend money on Azure. Of course the information you published may make customers less likely to choose Azure, harming Microsoft.
Being pwned can be explained away as an attacker having spent a lot of ressources to do so. Failing SLAs can be a calculated gamble.
I myself am grateful you published this! It gives a great inside view on what is going on in big tech in general and Microsoft specifically.
Well, what you describe is plausible, but it would not be a good long-term strategy and is certain to backfire badly at some point.
Then imagine your systems are key support systems with deep implications in government and the military, and the path you outline is not acceptable.
Onboarding new customers on a sinking ship is dishonest at best, criminal at worst.
So yes, I maintain that it helps more than it harms.