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The UI is, um, lets say, very unconventional for non-windows folks. It is extremely sluggish compared to AWS or GCP. As in, each page takes several seconds+ to

The UI is, um, lets say, very unconventional for non-windows folks. It is extremely sluggish compared to AWS or GCP. As in, each page takes several seconds+ to fully load vs AWS/GCP. Maybe this is just for me, or an IE vs Chrome issue or something, I'm not sure. The horizontal panning in the UI is pretty strange for the uninitiated too. Everyone else, the entire internet pretty much scrolls up/down on a web page but in Azure it's up/down + side-to-side + expanding panels with scroll. I'm not even sure where to look for things (scroll down or to the side). As far as the tech is concerned, I'm not sure but the first impression of the UI coming from another cloud provider just seems off. Typically, I use the UI to get the lay of the land before hitting the API or something. But, I suspect I'm not the target market since I've spent my entire career on the linux side of things.

mcintyre1994 8y ago
You can't bookmark things, and you can't middle/cmd+click to open in a new tab. AWS isn't much fun to use but Azure gets the basics of being a usable website wrong. Ugh. I don't have familiarity with Google Cloud though. And in fairness I used Azure for a feature AWS didn't have anything close to (service bus queues), I can see why having really well built things like that get them huge deals. Microsoft know what they're doing in those markets.
mmcconnell1618 8y ago
Enterprises tend to automate cloud deployments once they've gotten past the initial phases. Comparing UI is valid but also compare the Restful APIs, SDKs and template driven automation tooling across clouds.
- scarface74 8y ago
  You give way too much credit to most enterprise infrastructure guys.
meddlepal 8y ago
Hearing that the UI in Azure is sluggish compared to GCP's craptacular UI... is disappointing. I still don't know how Google can be so bad at creating responsive user interfaces.
- cobookman 8y ago
  Because it's all angularjs. And angular is slow
  - rawoke083600 8y ago
    Really like version 1 ? I thought they would have move to Ang 2,3,4,5,7 ?
manigandham 8y ago
I feel Azure has the fastest console. Everything is relatively consistent and loads instantly, even over slow wifi. The actual product line is messy, but it's all very usable, and has recently gotten much nicer looking. GCP console and products are very consistent and well planned, but the console itself is slow to load because of their heavy UI framework and dumb animations. I much prefer ugly and fast over clean and slow. AWS is messier than Azure but faster than GCP.
aviv 8y ago
The Azure portal UI is horrendous. It is the prime example of exactly how NOT to design UI/UX.

mcintyre1994 8y ago

You can't bookmark things, and you can't middle/cmd+click to open in a new tab. AWS isn't much fun to use but Azure gets the basics of being a usable website wrong. Ugh. I don't have familiarity with Google Cloud though. And in fairness I used Azure for a feature AWS didn't have anything close to (service bus queues), I can see why having really well built things like that get them huge deals. Microsoft know what they're doing in those markets.

mmcconnell1618 8y ago

Enterprises tend to automate cloud deployments once they've gotten past the initial phases. Comparing UI is valid but also compare the Restful APIs, SDKs and template driven automation tooling across clouds.

scarface74 8y ago
You give way too much credit to most enterprise infrastructure guys.

meddlepal 8y ago

Hearing that the UI in Azure is sluggish compared to GCP's craptacular UI... is disappointing. I still don't know how Google can be so bad at creating responsive user interfaces.

cobookman 8y ago
Because it's all angularjs. And angular is slow
- rawoke083600 8y ago
  Really like version 1 ? I thought they would have move to Ang 2,3,4,5,7 ?

manigandham 8y ago

I feel Azure has the fastest console. Everything is relatively consistent and loads instantly, even over slow wifi. The actual product line is messy, but it's all very usable, and has recently gotten much nicer looking. GCP console and products are very consistent and well planned, but the console itself is slow to load because of their heavy UI framework and dumb animations. I much prefer ugly and fast over clean and slow. AWS is messier than Azure but faster than GCP.

aviv 8y ago

The Azure portal UI is horrendous. It is the prime example of exactly how NOT to design UI/UX.