The total load of (TCO) is huge
“This URL leads to an Internet application and not an Internet site,” someone tells me that it blocks JavaScript by default, and runs “Windows Server” (it says “Windows Server 2008” in March 2024 on Netcraft).
Windows Server 2008 has been in “End of Life” (EOL) for over a decade!
The site has had a lot of serious problems, which is actually embarrassing for the number one football club in the world, according to UEFA. The “club coefficient” is now 146,000, 7,000 more than second-placed Bayern Munich. Money is rarely a major factor here; Microsoft is more expensive and the oil sheikhs in the UAE are funneling or pumping cash into Bill Gates, either unnecessarily or at the expense of fan safety.
They’re wasting their money on Microsoft, probably because they have Microsoft on their payroll, applying to Microsoft from within the club (in other words, applying to Microsoft on someone else’s payroll).
It’s even worse. ” Running on Microsoft Azure Clownflare”, as I’ve been told, is now “Malicious Clowns” (I’ve seen many episodes of ClownFlare control, presenting me with puzzles to solve instead of pages. . . even if I’m employing a client browser without VPN or Tor or something). Azure has been a failure for a long time despite what the media says (for Microsoft as a sponsor). The “results” are manipulated (fraud), so Microsoft has moved from the language of “slapstick computing” to “AI” (Hey Hype).
So someone over there (across the street from where I’m writing this) wants to be fired. This isn’t a new challenge and I’ve written about it before, either on my blog or elsewhere. It’s worth noting that other football clubs have a bad problem (they use GNU/Linux and loose software for their sites).
“I wonder how much money they’re directly wasting overpaying Microsoft and Clownflare,” I’ve been told, “on most lost-price ticket sales. “
It’s almost very unlikely to book something online online. When Adobe Flash was dead or about to die, they were still using Flash. Technical incompetence in all of this. . .
For the world’s top-ranked or most prestigious club, it’s an embarrassing situation. Many times, they can’t sell all the seats, so they leave money on the table and their virtual assets in the hands of Microsoft. Who is to blame for this crisis, and given new reports of major compromises (security breaches), who will be held to blame when they officially announce security breaches?Since they use Azure and Microsoft recently admitted that Azure was hacked (late and at fault), they suffered a security breach last year. What is the prestige of responsibility? They lie and lie like Sainsbury’s and Gregg, having outsourced to Microsoft until critical systems failed. People couldn’t ask for anything good.
Of course, Microsoft brags about those corporations by referring to them as “customers” (in the sense of “case studies”) and hides or runs away in case of bugs and technical glitches. Therefore, Microsoft prefers to be named.
Microsoft “keeps its contracts confidential,” one associate reminds me, “and treats them as industry secrets, even to government forums and universities. “
“That secret is a thing to reveal. . . “
It’s very difficult. I spent a lot of time on the phone with Sainsbury’s last week (4 other people) and they are obstructing, calling it an “accident”.
Either way, with Microsoft we can’t expect any genuine accountability. We’ve already noticed how the government let them escape through an Azure-wide security breach. The media has “evolved” and governments continue to (secretly) pay Microsoft for hacked systems, creating disorder and frustration among other people who just need food, not a bench in a football stadium. Microsoft lowers the criteria for systems and security.
Why is our tax investment like this?
On the topic of security, “Google reports a significant increase in zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023,” the Microsoft-sponsored news said on Wednesday, but “unlike other articles on the subject, this one avoids calling Windows,” the spouse notes. . . The Registry states that “this includes 17 vulnerabilities in Windows, 11 in Safari, nine affecting iOS and Android, and 8 in Chrome. “
A security-focused news story said, “Despite an increase in zero-day attacks, knowledge shows that security investments to mitigate operational formulas and software vulnerabilities are forcing attackers to locate new attack surfaces and new error patterns. “
But Microsoft simply hides known flaws [1, 2] until they are exploited through someone other than the NSA and others. In other words, until it’s too late and the damage has already been done. . .
In a functioning industry, those who did so would be arrested and prosecuted.
The overall burden of Windows ownership is a huge cost to society as a whole, even when it doesn’t report on Windows. █