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Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?

10 points by nothrowaways

by toast0

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Microsoft changed its strategy around testing in 2014 [1], eliminating the Software Developer Engineer in Test position and having a goal of shipping faster.
12 years later, most of their software is crap. Maybe it comes out faster?
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...

by bob1029

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by MisterTea

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This always comes to mind: https://axelriet.medium.com/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trilli...
I just helped setup a new O365 account and joined Win 11 machines to Entra (Cloud Active directory) for a company.
Total mess. The cloud services each had partial outages where I was met with "Data not available at this time" or various errors. At first I thought I was holding it wrong, but no, hours or even a day later things that didn't work suddenly worked. Going forward if I hit a wall I take a break, try again later and it works.
I am no MS fan but the integration of Win11 and O365/Azure seems to be headed in the right direction but the execution is a total mess. One beef is OneDrive integration is an idiotic duality as its not a "drive" and given special treatment by office apps such as only allowing auto save when saving to Onedrive.
MS, get your shit together.

by akagusu

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Microsoft and others don't need quality to sell their crap.
This is the benefit of being big enough to control a large chunk of the market.

by didriksg

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Having worked with a client using Microsoft now, I feel ya. Logins are broken, exchange, admin, entra, everything feels so fragile.

by hulitu

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by shpeedle

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I personally find a lot of Microsoft software products to be a little buggy. Use Linux desktop for a while then use Windows and you'll see what I mean.
C# is the best thing microsoft made, but was forced to be open sourced because of node.js.

by VirusNewbie

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Microsoft pays significantly less than most other big tech companies. I'm not sure why they go this route, or if they think having a few super highly paid engineers to manage/lead the lower paid ones is the way to go, but it may be related.

by verdverm

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I feel the same about Big G, with my leading hypothesis being that they are leaning into hands free Ai too much. I certainly have direct evidence for that from Google in the form of a slop deck they sent me, and perceived evidence through Google Cloud degradation.

by jdw64

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Big companies always have internal conflicts and politics. Looking at Microsoft's products, you can see similar product lines competing with each other, and they're a mess. Personally, I think C# is a well-polished language, but the frameworks are terrible.
Google is similar.
All of Microsoft's recent products feel unstable and unfinished to me. Honestly, I think all big companies become bureaucratic and end up the same way. Google, in particular, had issues with the Antigravity IDE. And Gemini is also terrible.

by gokuljs

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by mooiedingen

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by frwrfwrfeefwf

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