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by hulitu
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 akagusu
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 shpeedle
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 VirusNewbie
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 MisterTea
Microsoft is a big place. I recommend focusing on the parts they do well rather than getting tribal. All of the following products and services are fantastic in 2026:
Windows Server
SQL Server
.NET/C#/F#/Nuget
Visual Studio [code]
SSMS
AAD/EntraID
Defender
DirectX
Excel
by bob1029
Having worked with a client using Microsoft now, I feel ya. Logins are broken, exchange, admin, entra, everything feels so fragile.
by didriksg
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...
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- > lately
You must be new here.
by hulitu - 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 akagusu - 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 shpeedle - 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 VirusNewbie
- 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 MisterTea - Microsoft is a big place. I recommend focusing on the parts they do well rather than getting tribal. All of the following products and services are fantastic in 2026:
I agree that Teams still kind of sucks and that Azure is a complete dumpster fire of a cloud, on average. But that doesn't mean we should throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. We should employ a multi-stage filtration system and extract whatever value we can.Windows Server SQL Server .NET/C#/F#/Nuget Visual Studio [code] SSMS AAD/EntraID Defender DirectX Excelby bob1029 - Having worked with a client using Microsoft now, I feel ya. Logins are broken, exchange, admin, entra, everything feels so fragile.by didriksg
- 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 toast0