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The purpose of using Microsoft products in an office environment is so that your office can be run with as much personal computer enhancement as you originally realized when you first effectively replaced the traditional office machines or more-labor-intensive tasks with software-powered substitutes.

Which all occurred way before any of the things like "single-sign-on" got popular among those who didn't seem to know any better. The second this appeared it was easily recognized as one of the many consumer/entertainment features that must be disabled across every bit of any serious corporate network.

Also best disabled on any home computer before it is allowed to touch the internet.

There was no forthcoming mitigation, all Microsoft leadership could do was throw up their hands, after all there were unsurmountable reasons why such a threat could not be overcome.

>it required customers to turn off one of Microsoft’s most convenient and popular features:

Like any other office no-brainer:

>the ability to access nearly every program used at work with a single logon.

Duh.



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