Maybe it’s because I literally do not give a shit about the company or it’s products or customers. I just want money. In fact, I want the opposite kind of imposter syndrome, where I trick the people hiring me into thinking I’m much more qualified than I actually am get paid a shit ton more money. Yes I know C++, Pascal, Assembly, COBOL. Please pay me $500k.
Microsoft has like single-handedly caused all the malware in the world due to how insecure and over complex and crappy their operating system is. Literally all they have to do is introduce some kind of sandboxing for Windows apps and they just don't do it.
I don't think it's strictly Microsoft's fault here.
Windows was the first really widespread OS and so it's only logical it'd bear the brunt of malware attacks.
I think software engineering as a discipline was really immature at the time when the Internet first exploded in popularity, I think the same security faults would have happened with any OS that would be really popular at the time.
It's not like desktop Linux is particularly malware proof, Xorg in particular had some really really nasty security flaws.
I think the weak computer security of the late 90s and early 00s was just the growing pains of the entire industry, I don't think any organization would handle things drastically better than Microsoft did.
Yeah good point. It's just disappointing how far behind desktop computers are compared to phones. Android and iOS both have actual application sandboxing. Microsoft sort of tried it with the UWP but they didn't make it very easy to develop for or something like that so there was no adoption.