Guess all the enterprise customers want this on their AI computers
Ew, what? No
Microsoft is like a plague.
They spot something with potential and immediately pounce on it. That’s exactly how it went with GitHub too. And now they’re trying to insert themselves into Linux. Probably just to harvest data. Complete bullshit. I would never use that.Crucial distinction: this is specifically for enterprise developer workstations under corporate management (requiring Defender for Endpoint / M365 enterprise licenses), not a general release for all Linux users.
I wrote a bit about what this means for the compliance versus privacy tug-of-war over on my site: Microsoft Defender Arrives on Linux Workstations.
Definitely an interesting shift for mixed-stack environments.
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Well, even though Microsoft Defender was one of the better products they had, making all the anti-virus-software obsolete, I would still not dream of installing it on my linux, where I have a totally different security model by default, only for MS to gather data for free.
one of the better products they had
and it wasn’t even grown in-house. it was an acquisition.
Thanks, but no thanks.
The more Linux gets support the more likely is that it gets used more and is allowed on more companies. I dont want windoes defender on my linux device but I still think this is a good step for linux in general
What the fuck?
I think I’ll stick to Wazuh 😂
Next up: Microsoft Linux with crap like Game Center.
We technically do have Azure Linux, which is based on Fedora Linux but is tailored to work with Microsoft’s cloud services.
Lmao is it April 1st already? This is so fucking funny to me
Isn’t this mostly for enterprises that have linux on notebooks or VDIs, just so that all of their OS types are in the same ecosystem when it comes to attack surface management (ie in Sentinel)?
It’s perfect for them. They don’t have to do the work of maintaining an OS (Which they suck at) and get to continue monitoring the entire computer using their malwa- I mean security suite. :)
It’s to meet compliance regulations for orgs leveraging linux with E5/E7 licenses already. I doubt they even publish a version your average user can license, and it’s probably just an attempt to further entrench orgs into E5/E7, perpetual money drip into the Microslop money tank.
For anyone who has been missing Microsoft’s tender, loving embrace since switching to Linux. Copilot for Linux is in development, I presume.
So I actually had claude code make me a python backend that allows copilot to talk and send commands to Windows or Linux computers. Python executes the commands sent by copilot and then returns the output back to copilot via an API, and it goes back and forth like this until it finishes the task. It’s like a janky Claude Code But it works on any device that has Python. It actually operates so much better when you only allow it to respond in commands it’s passing too and from your computer.
It is, but it’s been branded Linux Subsystem For Copilot 365 Enterprise Service Pack 2.
Probably already done… Copilot for Linux developed the defender for Linux as a test. They say it even sometimes work!
Then what? Office365 for Linux?
