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Head to Microsoft y’all, they have competent management at the helm.

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I am not sure I agree with the sentiment. Maybe their management is better on this one issue of remote work. But Microsoft’s competency in terms of their financial results is not deserved. They still do all the things they did in the 90s that got them into trouble. Look at the bundling of Teams and Office. Or forced ads in start menus. Or rampant use of dark patterns to get you to use their products. Or the lack of security updates for Windows 10 starting next year, which will force people into Windows 11 and privacy/security violating Recall. A lot of the financial success we’re seeing is Microsoft taking existing enterprise contracts and using them to push new things onto companies repeatedly, as a way to make money. In other words, their existing capital and distribution and captive audience is why they see success, not their “competent management”.

None of this impacts practitioners receiving generous compensation and flexible working arrangements from Microsoft today, both of which are in short supply at AWS. I leave antitrust to the regulators (who should pursue antitrust behavior), but if you need a place to flee to from the AWS dumpster fire, it exists.

Microsoft management is competent because it treats workers like adults and with respect. AWS does not.

Yeah, but then you have to use Windows all day long. It's better to be a janitor cleaning toilets than to suffer this way.

Pretty sure you can use a mac.

That's even worse.

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From one evil empire to another?!

If you’re gonna work for the evil empire (which does have its perks), you might as well work for the one that isn’t run by morons.

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