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"PowerShell became a huge reason why Microsoft was able to succeed in the cloud computing market" um...Really?

• sofixa 4y ago
  Nope, there's no way that's true. Microsoft is only succeeding in cloud computing based on their existing reputation and business relationships, and software they managed to port as a service (O365). Without those their cloud would have crashed and burned as the buggy, slow, unreliable, insecure [1] mess that it is. 1 - if you feel like disputing the security record of Azure, they're literally the only big public cloud with more than 0 (and multiple at that!) critical cross-tenant security vulnerabilities, at least some of which were extremely trivial to exploit.
• zahrc 4y ago
  No, not really. The PowerShell modules for the several M365 admin centres are, including the “new” MSGraph API, buggy, inconsistent and missing vital features across the board. PowerShell is great, MickeySofts own modules, not.
  • lc9er 4y ago
    Yeah. They've repeatedly bungled Azure/O365 related Powershell modules. Some modules offering partially overlapping functionality, which are then deprecated in favor of MSGraph. The Powershell MSGraph API is not a 1:1 replacement and the documentation for Powershell is pretty awful in places.
• Decabytes 4y ago
  This interpretation was based off of this tweet by Snover^1 > A couple of years ago and senior exec told me that PowerShell was THE technology that enabled Microsoft to move to the cloud. > He said that Exchange lead the way and that it could never have done it if weren’t for PowerShell. > I had never heard that perspective. But liked it. Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, or he is stroking his own ego, but there at least is one source for it 1. https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523020982490832896 https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523020982490832896