If I've understood the context of the article, this is admitting that US cyber defenses aren't working.
There's multiple “offensive” objectives from MITM China's comms, to a Nation State DDOS and I suspect it's more about surveilance than knocking out a server.
But if anyone thinks that their country isn't already doing some form of cyber offense already is a little behind the times.
Yeah, mirroring the other comment here -it's standalone app everytime for me. I'm a bit of a power user, so maybe it's the extra functionality that just can't be handled in a browser which already has 20 other tabs open, but live colab is ... well, just not used that often.
Sure, we'll be tweaking cells in a spreadsheet now & again, but my technical documents are done by one person, then reviewed (comments, track changes, etc) by others for the audit trail.
And I'm just not going to purchase a Microsoft product again.
But I will contribute to Open Source... ODF has done great things.