Microsoft
MicrosoftSusanBradleyGeek I totally understand you are trying to be helpful, and we all understand how we should interpret the silence from Microsoft employees. Leaving thousands upon thousands of small businesses with major security risks with ABSOLUTELY NO STATEMENT or clarification from Microsoft is not an answer. Especially with the current state of affairs in IT and cybersecurity, as a small businesses we are facing warnings from US CERT about security threats due to Iran threats https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-006a and the CISA/DHS https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/01/06/release-new-cisa-insights-increased-geopolitical-tensions-and.
Microsoft cares deeply about security, I've posted active stats on number of internet facing devices running Windows Server 2008 and leaving ALL small businesses with NO SOLUTION (no moving to Azure is not a solution), and an arbitrary decision to only sell Windows 7 ESUs is absolutely going against Microsoft values and security guidance. Let us buy Windows Server 2008 ESUs via CSPs or some other program but there has been no official Microsoft stand on this documented anywhere.
So dear Microsoft employees, please raise this to the right decision maker and review this decision. This is one of your CORE values as Microsoft. "“If we can’t protect people, then we don’t deserve their trust.” How are you protecting small businesses that need more time to update their servers? Is competition with AWS enough for you to breach trust with a large chunk of your Windows Server small business customers. Please, make the right decision - sell the Windows Server 2008 ESU to small business, charge us even more if you want but give us a real option to protect our businesses and our infrastructure.
