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I think as long as nothing actually happens, other companies wont care. No one is capable of thinking about the future anymore, there is only next quartal and short term profits.
It might actually be needed for something big to go down first, like those 0day exploits actually get exploited and some client company or few loses a lot of money because of it. Considering how unsecure windows is, i'm a bit perplexed how nothing hasn't happened already.
Some of the other 0days this guy released are already being actively exploited in the wild, but no reports of big losses as a result of them yet. Having said that, the entire point of BitLocker was that it was full disk encryption that you didn't have to think too much about; and now I bet every corporate IT department out there is looking at it with suspicion. If this guy can keep delivering on "things that keep sysadmins awake at night", like "oh god every hard drive we've had stolen in the last few years can be fully decrypted now", eventually a lot of them will decide it is less harrowing and less work to move their entire stack away from Microsoft than it is to live with them.
They'd better not be overselling this bomb they're gonna drop in July. I'm already moved over to Linux fully now, to quote photonicinduction: I want flames. I don't just want to see it all over the tech news, I'm hoping he screws with them hard enough the story makes it to actual TV news channels.