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With only very little snark, I'm more than happy to nominate many Microsoft products for the same category of top down B2B sales that Oracle occupies. You don'

by tux3 5y ago

With only very little snark, I'm more than happy to nominate many Microsoft products for the same category of top down B2B sales that Oracle occupies. You don't chose to use MS Teams. Someone sells it to your employees. On a technical level, Teams technically works.. some of the time. No one picked Azure because they have better tech. You pick Azure either for business reasons, or because they exclusively offer something you need. I have encountered more bugs, incorrect documentation, and operations mysteriously hanging for 20 minutes in a couple weeks of Azure usage than in years of GCP and AWS use. It is not even close. And I will refrain, with great effort, from speaking about the confused inconsistent mess that is Azure Active Directory.

tialaramex 5y ago
Microsoft Azure Active Directory is a great example of Microsoft's habit of using buzzwords to indicate chronology rather than indicate anything about technology. That's four words, you've got lots of opportunity to tell me what exactly this does, but nope, Microsoft at the front tells me this is from an era when the Windows group wasn't ascendant at Microsoft, in this case the recent era. Azure tells me this is from Microsoft's "cloud" era starting in about 2010 (but the early part of that is "Windows Azure"). Active though is from an earlier incarnation, it's a turn of the century idea. Huh. "Microsoft Core Directory 365" would tell me this was a newer product, maybe from the last 3-5 years or so, "Windows Directory.NET" is from maybe 2005, while "Windows Directory X" would most likely be a late-1990s product and plain "Microsoft Directory" suggests maybe it's from the late 1980s or early 1990s. Notice how if you don't know that Microsoft names their products based on chronology you might assume Azure Active Directory is Active Directory but in Azure? Big mistake. Thinking that way can cost you a lot of time or money.
- pram 5y ago
  Hilarious. I had no idea Azure AD wasn’t actually AD, but actually uhh, more like OneLogin? lol

by tux3 5y ago

tialaramex 5y ago

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is a great example of Microsoft's habit of using buzzwords to indicate chronology rather than indicate anything about technology. That's four words, you've got lots of opportunity to tell me what exactly this does, but nope, Microsoft at the front tells me this is from an era when the Windows group wasn't ascendant at Microsoft, in this case the recent era. Azure tells me this is from Microsoft's "cloud" era starting in about 2010 (but the early part of that is "Windows Azure"). Active though is from an earlier incarnation, it's a turn of the century idea. Huh. "Microsoft Core Directory 365" would tell me this was a newer product, maybe from the last 3-5 years or so, "Windows Directory.NET" is from maybe 2005, while "Windows Directory X" would most likely be a late-1990s product and plain "Microsoft Directory" suggests maybe it's from the late 1980s or early 1990s. Notice how if you don't know that Microsoft names their products based on chronology you might assume Azure Active Directory is Active Directory but in Azure? Big mistake. Thinking that way can cost you a lot of time or money.

pram 5y ago
Hilarious. I had no idea Azure AD wasn’t actually AD, but actually uhh, more like OneLogin? lol