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Day 451. When triggering a remediation task for an #Azure Policy through the Azure Portal, the Portal won't immediately show you the remediation task. In our case, the remediation tasks usually only show up around 10 minutes after creation, after the remediation already has been completed.

As a #Microsoft employee, you can't mention #Palestine, #Gaza or #genocide in internal emails anymore, because these are topics allegedly "not related to work" – an interesting statement to make, when you have contracts with the Israeli government, so the #IDF can run their "#AI" on your cloud that tells them where to drop the bombs in Gaza.

»Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes to reduce “politically focused emails” inside the company.

“Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. […]

The block of these terms comes in a week when current and former Microsoft employees have been protesting against the company’s contracts with the Israeli government«

theverge.com/tech/672312/micro

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// @palestine @israel

Vector illustration of the Microsoft logo.
The Verge · Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protestsBy Tom Warren

Went to go remove any #microsoft games from my #Steam wishlist, only to realize I don't have a single one on there. No #activison, no #bethesda, no #blizzard. Turns out I haven't really been microsoft's main target for a while. I don't use #Windows. Never used #Bing. Don't write programs with #DirectX, I use Vulkan and #OpenGL and #SDL. Don't use #OneDrive. Never used #Skype. Don't use an #Xbox #controller on my PC, I use an 8bitdo controller. Don't use #Azure. I am disconnected from them.

I see this going great. (Not.)

Yes, give the LLM direct access to your operational environment — and make no mistake, "on behalf of and with approval of the user" means they're not liable, *you* are.

And it can even automatically feed into the #Copilot slop and create more load for developers on #GitHub .

techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl

TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COMIntroducing Azure SRE Agent | Microsoft Community HubToday we’re thrilled to introduce Azure SRE Agent, an AI-powered tool that makes it easier to sustain production cloud environments. SRE Agent helps respond...

If you're sure, then release the report!

Microsoft acknowledges it supplied AI technology to Israel's Ministry of Defense, but claims "no evidence" it's been used to "target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza"

eurogamer.net/microsoft-acknow

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OFC they gonna axe #Windows & #MicrosoftOffice anyway in favour of #subscription-only #Saas like #XboxGamePass, #Office365 / #Microsoft365 & #Azure because that's where the real margins are, not with #OneTimePurchase products!

Saksassa julkishallinto on tehnyt päätöksen että 2027 mennessä ei jaeta enää mitää MS-formaatissa (siirtyvät #LibreOffice ) ja tehneet periaatepäätöksen että siirtyvät #OpenSource yhteistyösoftiin (pois #teams ja sisään #nextcloud ). Aikataulu nextcloud siirtymälle tulee syksyllä.
Nyt Tanskan toiseksi suurin kaupunki Aarhus päätti että kaikki MS lähtee, #Azure vaihtuu #Hetzner ja yms.
Samaan aikaan #Microsoft tukema #AI-firma kaatuu konkurssiin.
Olen hyvin iloinen.

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