I hate how the author frames Linux as “cheap”. Just because it’s open source and free does not mean people use it because it’s cheap. They use it because they’re tired of the shit. Windows is “free”, too, if you never activate it.
Microsoft Activation Scripts: https://massgrave.dev/
What Is MAS?
MAS (Microsoft Activation Scripts) is a fully open-source Windows and Office activation tool distributed as batch scripts. It implements multiple activation methods that operate against Microsoft’s software licensing subsystem (SPP / OSPP / CLIP) to activate Windows and Office without a purchased product key.
https://deepwiki.com/massgravel/massgrave.dev/2-microsoft-activation-scripts-(mas)
This was sent around recently, on azure specifically. https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
It reads a bit like one engineer with a grudge, and you never know what the interpersonal skills of people are like; but the overall impression is of a competent engineer face with total chaos.
The bit about each azure host having a webserver shared across all client vms for info query was gobsmacking tbh. Though i dont work in this area.