Space Force - NetFlix - John Malkovich - Dr. Adrian Mallard - "Fuck Microsoft"
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Posted as a joke or pop-culture reference in threads complaining about Microsoft software behavior.
What it is
A short clip from the Netflix series Space Force in which John Malkovich's character delivers a profanity-laden rant about Microsoft.
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Cites btbuildem · 2024-04 · on “Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director”
While this brings to mind that scene [1] from Steve Carrel's "Space Force" show, you can't blame the scorpion for stinging you if you give him a ride on your back. The dependency on (pretty much) a single vendor across the entire military organization is such a monumental single point of failure, I can't imagine what level of obtuse bureaucracy led them there. It seems self-inflicted at best; if it wasn't MS it would've been some other corp. IMO the military (especially given their incredible size and access to resources) should have 100% rolled their own IT solutions from first principles, and built upon that. 1: [this video]