two major nation-state breaches of its core enterprise platforms, Microsoft is facing one of its most serious reputational crises.

Emphasis mine: web “journalist” using terms wrong to sound fancy, and sounding like a muppet instead. “Nation-state” is not a fancy synonymous for “country” dammit.

On-topic: Microsoft software vulnerability shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone here. It is not just a matter of higher market share, it’s also their “flashy new thing” syndrome - Microsoft loves to add irrelevancies to their products and push them down the users’ throats, and those irrelevancies increase the surface area for attacks.