You can’t be the arsonist, the fire department, and the building inspector all rolled into one.

Corporate politics are complex. When your mission is to “empower every organization on the planet to achieve more”, sometimes shipping a risky productivity feature (like adding JavaScript to Excel) will ride roughshod over Microsoft’s army of well-intentioned security professionals. If the company was moving slower to ship more secure code, discontinuing old features (like Apple), or trying to get its massive customer base to a great security baseline faster (like Google), it could do amazing things for the security community. …

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