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Actually, there were comments on hacker news the other day about the domain, the most likely explanation is that is was too cumbersome to provision new things o
by user5994461 7y ago
Actually, there were comments on hacker news the other day about the domain, the most likely explanation is that is was too cumbersome to provision new things on microsoft.com so the devs went with what they could get their hands on instead.
- jiggawatts 7y agoYeah I know, but from the perspective of a customer it sounds absurd. Personally I'm fed up with single entities such as Microsoft using TLDs for every damned thing, it makes it very hard to identify what is and isn't legitimate traffic. It also makes it borderline impossible to configure "whitelisting" firewalls or proxy servers. I got to wonder what fraction of this is incompetence ("we can't use our own domain because of bureaucracy") and what fraction is deliberate ("everyone has blocked microsoft.com so we used something else")...
- LilBytes 7y agoWhich is ludicrous in it's self that they set entirely new domains rather than using a sub-domain with delegated access. But, we know how Microsoft works. That would require some kind of communication between departments and delegated trust.