I read opinions like those but then I worked with Azure at previous jobs a lot and never had any really big issues. On the other side, I just tried using AWS for a small Saas of mine and after setting up SES, I got a shady email, from non-defult support amazon domain that I need to send them scans of my personal documents. Link in that email was blocked by uBlock Origin, domain was not the same as other emails, not a single notification in AWS Support Console anywhere so I ignored it as phishing. Got suspended two weeks later, not a single human in sight within 48 hours of me making a ticket, I just gave up and moved emails to Cloudflare. If I had actual real clients at that phase I'd be pretty pissed. I genuinely don't know how people blindly trust AWS with everything these days, it's 2026 and there's still not even a hard billing limit built into AWS.

There are huge swaths of azure engineering teams that deploy things entirely manually via azure portal. Insane.

What is MBO?

> We use Azure at work and it’s wild how much stuff is just manual labor behind the scenes on their platform.

AWS is no different. Everything is on fire all the time, but customers usually don't notice.

I essentially said this in a sibling post whose parent asked why it seems like nobody knows the codebase anymore except my post was immediately flagged.

I think this is the logical conclusion of using copilot to write your stuff for the last two years. Nobody knows what it does and more and more bugs are being solved by just pointing the AI back to it again. Combine with the fact that so many people have been laid off and replaced with copilot I'm not surprised that the few who remain aren't quite sure how to solve it

And yet, for some reason, we have to _prove_ this is the case, as though in the history of time, engineering something has ever proven ok as a careless endeavor.

The sales have fallen off compared to the Playstation.

A quick google search turned up these global sales numbers: PS3 87.40 million, PS4 117.20 million, PS5 96.44 million. Xbox 360 85.73 million, Xbox One 57.96 million, Xbox Series X/S 35.68 million.

> Hadn't heard about Xbox

Indeed you’re seeing the consequences of their past decade+ of management

Massive layoffs and studio closures and mergers like Obsidian merged with Bethesda.

New Xbox to cost $1200-$1800.

Gamepass limited to 15 hours a month for Ultimate.

It'll probably be an app instead of its own thing in the future. For Pluton-enabled systems only of course.

insufficiently supervised AI on top of poorly architected sales and marketing driven decisions looks like it's a good recipe for a nice warm garbage fire

> Luckily most European politicians are corrupt and can easily be bought to prevent them from ditching Azure and Windows.

They're not corrupt (in a lot of cases), mostly just ignorant. Like, they don't understand the tech, and microsoft is safe, they're already using it so handing over large swathes of their infra to them seems reasonable.

MS have wonderful sales people, and this is why they do well with governments and large enterprises.

There's also a co-ordination problem, in that all of your counterparties (like your citizens, for instance) are familiar with MS and therefore it costs a bunch locally to move, for little short-term reward.

This is actually a place where (good) regulation could derisk a lot of these changes, but you'd need a committed group of politicians who can convince the civil servants to keep at it. It'll happen, but slowly and in starts over the next 5-15 years.

I am aware that the authentication subsystems have major structural problems which make finding things like exfiltration bugs in azure surprisingly common. I suspect the current incident is related. I'm hoping it's also caused by too much insufficiently supervised AI coding on poor architectural foundations, and that being caused by that will be obvious and hopefully become public. But that's just speculation on my part.

After the last couple of updates on entra, where you keep getting the "loading dots" to just pull up is insane. I still use Azure or PowerShell to do the task by the time it can "load up".

My take is the reason companies use Azure is lack of imagination. Like Service Now. Just horrible software, and thems that make the decision to buy it aren't the one's who have to use it.

Microsoft has not layed off half of its workers: 2021-2026: +23% employees 2024-2026: -2% employees

What changed is the productivity per employee: 2021-2026: +60% 2024-2026: +38%

To be honest, I also assumed your take on this at first. But after a bit of research I found quite a different reality!

I have the pro Microsoft copilot subscription at work just so I can search Outlook and teams since the native search doesn't turn up things when I search exact strings that are in the messages or use filters for other things like sender or recipient. Crazy to have to use an llm just to find an email

This really is the honest truth, every interaction I have with the MS platform is somehow worse than an actual dumpster fire. AI is the only thing keeping the ship afloat. Then again maybe that's the point?

> Fabric

I see what you did there.

Fabric is a weird one, as it's sortof a GUI over spark, but also PowerBI and lots of weird services.

It feels like a "data plaform" for people who've never used one before and only have the vaguest idea of what it means.

That being said, Spark is pretty good and we're running a lot of workflows on it (and probably building more on top, I suspect that I'll be much angrier about it in approximately 6 months or so).

I'm sure they would love to try, but Copilot is also offline according to the status page.

You don't understand, the agents aren't fixing the outage because those human engineers didn't make the infrastructure AI first. The only possible follow-up from this is that the faulty infra needs to be completely thrown away in favor of the vibecoded replacement.

I don't understand how basically everything has languished under Nadella. Apple doesn't sell MacOS, so it should be less incentivized to keep improving it, but it is way better than Windows and the gap keeps widening. If I didn't use MacOS, I would just use Linux.

Windows does always cater to backwards companility and making IT departments happy, so that explains some of the lagging technology and systems. I can't believe NTFS is still the default file systems. That's generations behind Apple's APFS.

The stock has popped, and that's what Wall Street cares about, but I could see a world where this chronic underinvestment and mismanagement basically implodes the entire company in the coming years.

I made the switch to Linux Mint and it’s wonderful and almost triples my battery life. I’m also in the process of switching to a phone with graphene os which runs like butter and feels so much more secure, safe and private.

>>Btw does everyone see how insanely crappy Windows 11 is compared to MacOS

This is just an anecdote, but I have the exact opposite experience. I'm a C++ games developer working on Windows 11 every day and other than the micro frustrations with stupid UI, the system just works. I know I can rely on it day to day. But I was also given a MacBook last year for our iOS ports and I don't understand how anyone considers it a serious operating system for work - it's full of bugs to a point where I started using AI to work around some of them. I thought maybe MacOS 27 would fix some of them and sure it did - but then it introduced a whole bunch of new ones. As a developer it's probably the worst OS you could pick - if you hate windows for whatever reason go straight to Linux, at least you have actual control over your OS compared to MacOS where basic things like spotlight are broken and there's no way to fix them other than add to the thousands of complaints on apple forums.

Yup.

Nadella's AI fumble is a true generational fuck up. They had OpenAI, they had complete access to GPT models before any one, they even had the first coding assistant concept.

Then due to typical clueless management and lack of taste and complete buffoonery, they just fucked it all up. I'm not complaining because I think everyone is better off, but it's just amazing to have witnessed that even when they luck out on a bet, they manage to fuck it up. Copilot started as a coding assistant, and before it could breath they destroyed the brand by shoving the name into literally everything without thinking or taste. Ignored the coding part, because that's lame, and instead focused on half assed Windows or Office apps and integrations that no one will ever use. Once claude code dominated the scene, they realized the major fuckup and tried to catch up, but it's too little too late.

Again, not complaining really.

Crappy as in doesn't need third party full access to all accessibility untrusted toold for stuff like mouse scrolling the currect direction, volume control on external hdmi monitors, being able to navigate the UI using a keyboard, having the computer staying running when connected to a power source, etc?

One has to spend more on third party tools for getting MacOS to feature parity with a windows than a Win Pro license...

Linux is fine on the other hand, but you compared to a joke of an operating system.

Oh man. Do not look at the Darwin source code with remaining eye.

MacOS honestly feels like a toy OS for kids.