Microsoft Misinterprets User Needs with Android Malware Feature

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This image uses the popular 'Is this a pigeon?' anime meme format. In this version, a young man with glasses, labeled 'MICROSOFT,' is looking at a yellow butterfly, which is labeled 'ANDROID MALWARE.' The subtitle at the bottom reads, 'IS THIS WHAT USERS WANT?'. The meme satirizes the perception that large tech companies, in this case Microsoft, often misunderstand or ignore the actual needs and desires of their user base. It humorously suggests that Microsoft is presenting a flawed or undesirable feature (symbolized by 'Android Malware') as something valuable or requested by users. This could be a commentary on the introduction of Android app compatibility in Windows, implying it might bring more problems, like security risks, than benefits, or that it was a feature nobody was asking for

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The product manager said, 'Users want a seamless cross-platform experience.' The engineering team heard, 'Let's import the entire Google Play Store threat model directly into the kernel.'

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The product manager said, 'Users want a seamless cross-platform experience.' The engineering team heard, 'Let's import the entire Google Play Store threat model directly into the kernel.'
Anonymous

“Windows Subsystem for Android” release criteria: 1) APK sideloads without whining ✅ 2) Calls home to a random IP range ✅ 3) Fits the slide that says “access to millions of Android apps” ✅ Cool - security can file a post-GA RFC
Anonymous

After spending billions on Nokia and watching Windows Phone die, Microsoft finally figured out how to get their software on Android devices - they just had to rebrand it as 'security features' instead of 'telemetry services'
Anonymous

Microsoft's relationship with Android security is the enterprise equivalent of your ex offering to fix your new partner's car - technically helpful, but everyone knows there's 20 years of Windows Mobile baggage in that toolbox. The real irony? Their Defender for Endpoint actually does decent Android threat detection now, but the trust issues run deeper than any APK's permission manifest
Anonymous

When MAU KPIs beat threat models, Android malware gets rebranded as a feature request and Defender is told to stop blocking the roadmap
Anonymous

Microsoft Defender on Android: Ships the bloatware, then heroically detects it
Anonymous

Microsoft evaluating Android malware: “HKCU Run key, scheduled tasks, silent updates - great engagement pattern; pin it by default.”
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

😏😏😏😏😏
@farkasma 5y

sounds oddly specific, what is this about?
1. @interfejs 5y
  
  windows 11 will run android stuff natively
  
  @pavloalpha 5y
  
  Ahhahahahahwhywqhag lmao "natively"
  
  @interfejs 5y
  
  don't ask me, I didn't read into that info
  
  @pavloalpha 5y
  
  Its just emulator bruh
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  no
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  well; possibly. But a much smarter implementation would be implementing the whole android API
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  which has already been done in open source land
  
  @pavloalpha 5y
  
  Proprietary soft moment
  
  @prirai 5y
  
  Anbox, do you know of any other?
  
  @arpanetus 5y
  
  wsl + smth over it
  
  @arpanetus 5y
  
  wsl is extremely fast rn
  
  @max_pop0ff 5y
  
  There will be a new android application format by Google instead of .apk, so I believe win11 will only run newer ones, but if I would be happy to be mistaken
  
  @Odinmylord 5y
  
  It isn't new
@RiedleroD 5y

where is that copying apple?
@RiedleroD 5y

I believe that concept has existed on linux for quite some time as well
@interfejs 5y

soon you'll witness the ARM revolution
@intbyte20 5y

you can run mobile applications on Linux since 2016, so it not copying apple
1. @Odinmylord 5y
  
  it is copying linux not apple
@dsrvd 5y

Well yes, but actually no
@max_pop0ff 5y

They will contain only system-specific data packages, unlike .apk, and all will require google certification, so there are a lot of differences between formats. Unfortunately, android piracy got hit really hard there
@asoteric 5y

dont worry, like android devices, windows 11 compatible computers will make it very hard to run other operating systems so you wont have to worry about security problems
@RiedleroD 5y

same, but I have no proof nor motivation to research it
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y

do you remember Windows CE / HPC / PocketPC which had supported subset of WinAPI or that it had .NET Framework? I am sure it was like two decades before Apple.
1. @freeapp2014 5y
  
  well

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