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Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] entwine@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

At least it's accurately named. "Microsoft Defender" is designed to defend Microsoft from competitors. All those EU orgs switching to Linux are now just one short sales call to the right idiot away from falling back into Microsoft's ecosystem.