You seem to have really low standards.

You are being too kind. Any issue that benefits MS being reported anonymously is very likely a direct lie and needs strong evidence to the contrary to even begin to be credible. MS has a long history of dishonest and illegal business practices.

Come to think of, the whole article sounds very much like slop.

Of course the claim that secure or not is a question of using a JIT compiler is completely bogus and just demonstrates that the one making it has absolutely no clue about software security.

No chance. And since you start with slop, completely forget about it. Nice hobbyist demo project, but that is it.

So this thing is slop? Even more reasons not to use it. It means everything not specified in detail is suspect, missing, broken or insecure and maintenance will be an absolute nightmare.

The overwhelming concern for any browser these days is security. And that means looking at all the libraries that get pulled in as well. And suddenly things get a lot more murky. Until we get real defense-in-depth as a mandatory requirement in all software that can be taken seriously, this is an arms-race and a single person cannot compete.

Yep. Also, statements do not get much more low credibility than this, because this supposedly "absolute shit" tool is in widespread use and nobody has complained on that level about it now. The best fix is probably to remove the clowns making that statement.

You are confusing several steps here:
1. Get it away from US companies with a documented history of blocking organizational users on request from the US governmwent.
2. Get it to an EU source or FOSS for "reasons".

They are doing the first step now. The second one may not be needed.

Yeah. Next escalation "A large group of EU Officials loves Teams and wants to keep it because it is massively better than all competitors!".

Not really a surprise. These people apparently do not understand what the reasons for switching are. May also be the results of some probably illegal actions by Microsoft.

How the mighty have fallen ...

Well, the Steam thing is more market-share for essentially the same software.

Oh, I am aware of the facts. But I still find them hard to accept. The sheer level of maliciousness, dysfunction and lack of refinement is completely alien to me.

Even 3% is still a pretty significant market-share that you can get (or not) with not a lot of effort if you use sane development processes. Hence quite a few people will care. Also note that this share indicates a much larger potential share.

But there are a lot of lazy self-important fucks that think the rules do not apply to them and they are better than others. That would exactly be the people to use LLM slop and but forbid others to do the same.