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Save that for your local mom-and-pop store: Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar corporation with enough resources to, at the very least, provide a reliable service for enterprise clients.

The "AI is using a lot of resources" excuse was maybe acceptable last year but not in Q3 2026.

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Doubly so given this is hardly a surprise. We've been on this trajectory for at least a couple of years now. They don't get to shrug, point at 10x volume, and act like they've been blindsided.

They had large increase in volume, and trying to move to Azure at the same time. I don't envy them for either work they need to do. But also don't feel pithy because it's Microslop, at the end of the day.

All being said, I have most sympathy towards engineers of all people. They don't get to call the shots, they do as they are told. 99% of the time by an extremely out-of-touch managers.

Managers and executives though? Those I do blame. Surely at this point it should be blindingly obvious their current strategy is not working.

Those engineers also chose to work in US big tech for the ridiculously high salaries that come with it. Having to deal with the problems resulting from that scale is just part of the deal.

The end of the day is now.

Ok but if the same problem will happen with the mom-and-pop store, switching there doesn't help. This isn't a moral dilemma, people just want their stuff to be up.

If you use Azure you’d know they are definitely not able to scale up quickly. Tons of quotas and lack of availability.

They are also at least partially responsible for and profit from the LLM spam.

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