Why do tax dollars keep flowing to Microsoft’s flawed security?

In the swampish waters of American politics, politicians love to portray themselves as champions of small businesses, fighting against the dominance of corporate behemoths. In reality, of course, they often act at the behest of large corporate interests seeking to consolidate power through subsidies, rule changes, and legislative trickery.

A glaring example of this monopolistic cronyism is the government’s substantial financial support for tech giants like Microsoft. During the 2023 fiscal year, the U.S. government allocated nearly $500 million in subsidies to Microsoft, despite more than 50% of government workers expressing concerns about the vulnerability of their systems to cyber attacks due to their overreliance on Microsoft’s productivity technology.

What could possibly be the rationale for continuing to pour millions of taxpayer dollars into substandard cybersecurity?

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