Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage
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> It's not just Microsoft's Azure customers who are turning to Linux. Guthrie explained, "Native Azure services are often running on Linux. Microsoft is building more of these services. For example, Azure's Software Defined Network (SDN) is based on Linux."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-li...
Not a lot of the network infrastructure runs on Windows. From previous public statements and information out there, most of Azure's network stack is Linux-based.
> Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble
Yes.
> Yes.
Good to know
Businessmen as well as politicians are not interested in quality, it's just sales numbers and reelection.
Fucks sake.
At least Windows is quickly turning into exactly the kind of dumpster fire I would expect.
To my knowledge, they always were between average and terrible, compared to their competitors
This "whatever makes most money is the right thing to do" thinking is bad. We need to do better.
It will kill the world while looking very good on the quarterly report.
They have tech that's solid, but more niche, like .NET/C# which is applied more in the enterprise than internet oriented software. The windows NT kernel is a solid piece of engineering compared to other OSes (it was originally designed/developed by Dave Cutler who came from DEC and did VMS and applied/improved a lot of the concepts there), but has often been hindered by shit thrown on top of it.
Microsoft has done a lot, both good and bad. But a lot of the reasons they're as successful as they are is for the "bad" stuff, like extreme support for backwards compatibility, getting "good enough" to market while other companies languished in perfectionism or distraction (cough cough apple before 2000).
Microsoft has been middling for as long as I can remember. They’re not awful, but they’re also not exceptionally good.
They get by on being good enough that it’s easier to use another of their products than to buy in to a better solution.
The outages are somewhat new, but I think in large part because they didn’t host a whole lot a decade ago. They mostly sold software that buyers had to manage.