> They could have shipped a good product with all those billions
They did. It's called Azure: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-tops-wall-street-exp...
They did. It's called Azure: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-tops-wall-street-exp...
Have you read this?
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...
Microsoft's B2C reputation is undeniably burnt, but their B2B mindshare is unshakable.
Even with the free version you get phish-resistant MFA, SAML, OIDC, OAuth.
But go beyond that and it is messy:
- creating a single VM is an extremely convoluted process
- Intune needs up to 24 hours to appply changes to a managed computer
- There are at least two management consoles for Entra. Each with slightly different functionalities.
I don’t know how Microsoft is organized internally, but it feels like product organizations don’t talk to eachother and everybody is is just building stuff on top of Azure as if their thing is the only product MS ships.