It is surprising how long some things can survive beyond their due
date. As a parallel; everyone knew the Soviet system was rubbish,
beyond fixing, but stuck with a shrugging, de-facto acceptance of
something nobody believed in and couldn't change. It was the momentum
of stubborn ideology and resignation that kept it going. To me,
Microsoft represent a similar failure mode unique to capitalism, where
pure momentum of accumulated capital can prop up a dead company. In
their heyday Microsoft were so successful and made so much money that
today a mixture of memories, brand nostalgia and bought influence can
keep the show going despite an abysmal product.
Microsoft is still king of Enterprise because of vertical integration, centralized management / security tooling, and Microsoft Excel (which really has no competitor)
Linux and Apple both lack the centralized end point management / identity / and configuration that AD, Azure AD, Group Policy, ConfigMgr, etc offer for the windows platform
I think you're right, but that further confirms my understanding of
Microsoft as king of the hill of centralised, moribund, managed
mindset facing a diverse, dispersed, interoperable zero-trust future.
Zero Trust is all the rage in Silicon Valley, and Startups...
Zero Trust has almost zero traction outside of the tech sector from what I can see.
Microsoft has even dipped their toes into the market, and some pieces of their "zero trust" type of tooling as gain some adoption (like Autopilot), but for the I think we are atleast a 10 decade or more away from wide scale Zero Trust adoption is most organizations, and in some ways IPv6 has a greater chance because it likely will be forced on organizations in the next decade where zero trust will not be
Never underestimate the power of "we have always done it this way"
