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I am not sure if you are claiming that MS is bureaucratic inside or the tools and applications they create are hard to use. If we are talking about the inside

I am not sure if you are claiming that MS is bureaucratic inside or the tools and applications they create are hard to use. If we are talking about the inside then it does not seem to have stopped them from becoming gigantic. If you mean that their tools and products are hard to use then I think it differs a lot between products. VSCode is for example very easy to start and use. GitHub seems to get better all the time and is also easy compared to other similar tools and so on. You could say that things like Office is hard but I think they are easy to start using. The hard part is learning all/many of the advanced features and that is ok IMHO.

mwattsun 5y ago
I'm looking at it from a programmer's point of view, not a users. Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure — Melvin E. Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law I'm saying Microsoft is "bureaucratic" in it's nature. I'm not saying it can't change and I do recognize it has been improving in many areas. I celebrate their success. I used to work there. I didn't think what I am saying is controversial because Microsoft itself recognizes this and is taking many steps to become more open, nimble and to iterate development faster.