> Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft
What? How?
From a user's perspective, everything has gotten steadily worse under his reign. Solitaire is now a subscription service. I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8.
What? How?
From a user's perspective, everything has gotten steadily worse under his reign. Solitaire is now a subscription service. I long for the halcyon days of Windows 8.
Prior to CoPilot, my only beef was that Azure needs a ground up re-architecture. They bolted products onto Active Directory which is ancient LDAP tech. It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.
It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.
I thought Oracle Cloud was designed by AWS alum and was supposed to be solid?
AWS is a complexity maze, whereas GCP seems Google only does the minimum and one can only talk to bots.
In Sweden the only one I ever got support with was Google, so it’s not a universal experience (I didn’t pay for professional services).
I believe you and I have had this discussion before.
So I think when either of us talk about it as if it’s universal we are both wrong.
So every time you make a claim, I’ll be there.
Your experience with Google, it’s mine with AWS.
At the same time, the insistence from up top that all divisions have to be profitable on their own means that in practice there has been a steady ongoing scale-back from F/OSS for several years now. Just look at the situation in VSCode: sure, the base platform is still open, but increasingly many first-party extensions have their pieces replaced by closed source functionality - Python language server, C# debugger etc. Related to this are the attempts to block VSCode forks by using prohibitive licensing terms and even inserting runtime checks for the same.
Example, you cannot do graphical debugging of parallel code, use visualizers, or do profiling analysis in VSCode.
I really don't see the problem with LDAP. If they make an overlay for it and it's needlessly complicated, that's just par for the course. Have you experienced SharePoint?
Sure it was. Just as OP wrote:
> From a user's perspective, everything has gotten steadily worse under his reign.
I hate registering a shitty app and use their modern auth flow. No security gain for additional maintenance.
For that matter, this is a main reason why Windows is so established. The logistic problem of distributing user accounts on several machines.
And no, a virtual and slow cloud Windows is not an alternative for anyone that wants to be productive.
(strangely, perhaps my perception, this is roughly when the Mac M1 came out).
Embraced as in this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
That is a joke, right? Right??
Well, the games are still free, the subscription is to remove the ads.
But you have to subscribe for each game separately, and it's a per-device subscription.
Yes, Microsoft really is that petty when it comes to nickel-and-diming users these days.
It's a sign of the times...
That's a phrase I would never have thought I'd see. I remember Windows 8 as being generally despised when it first came out.