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They shipped it, as terribly user-hostile, and stupidly insecurely, as they did, for some reason. Did they just not care? Think we wouldn't notice? Conveniently

They shipped it, as terribly user-hostile, and stupidly insecurely, as they did, for some reason. Did they just not care? Think we wouldn't notice? Conveniently shipped a gaping hole for 3-letter-agencies? That feature, with its shit security, was designed, aplroved, implemented, reviewed, and see by COUNTLESS PMs, engineers, and managers. No one cared. That culture is rotten to its fucking core. Microsoft never gave a shit about good engineering when I was there, highly preferring to gaslight and go over peoples heads, dare they say that the entire (initial) design of VMSS is flawed, or that maybe just maybe Azure would benefit from a metadata service and machine identities. Literally "controversial" shit that resulted in my manager getting emailed. Every, single engineer, bar one, that I respected at that company has left. Says something. I know it's a hot take but people are out of their minds trusting a Microsoft platform if they care at all about personal or business privacy.

Loughla 2y ago
Honestly I think that Microsoft has such a stranglehold on the business (and therefore home because we're already familiar with it at work) market that they think they can do literally anything they want. Are the millions of businesses that really on Ms products going to change systems? No. Not sure what I'm getting at with this. Maybe just trying to logic my way through this decision?
- CatWChainsaw 2y ago
  When there is no alternative, your only choice is to bend over. That's what you're getting at.
  - Loughla 2y ago
    Correct. Everyone wants to shit on new tech companies that corner the market at a loss just to drive up prices after they have their moat. MS has the largest and most well guarded moat in existence. They're simply wringing out the profits now.
nixosbestos 2y ago
Lol how many times has AAD or Entra been effectively all-but fully compromised? Lol can you use an ed25519 key to deploy an Azure machine? (No) Microsoft's entire org structure and mode of operation leads to these same results over and over across windows and azure.
lannisterstark 2y ago
When did they ship it? It was never shipped out to consumers iirc.

Loughla 2y ago

Honestly I think that Microsoft has such a stranglehold on the business (and therefore home because we're already familiar with it at work) market that they think they can do literally anything they want. Are the millions of businesses that really on Ms products going to change systems? No. Not sure what I'm getting at with this. Maybe just trying to logic my way through this decision?

CatWChainsaw 2y ago
When there is no alternative, your only choice is to bend over. That's what you're getting at.
- Loughla 2y ago
  Correct. Everyone wants to shit on new tech companies that corner the market at a loss just to drive up prices after they have their moat. MS has the largest and most well guarded moat in existence. They're simply wringing out the profits now.

nixosbestos 2y ago

Lol how many times has AAD or Entra been effectively all-but fully compromised? Lol can you use an ed25519 key to deploy an Azure machine? (No) Microsoft's entire org structure and mode of operation leads to these same results over and over across windows and azure.

lannisterstark 2y ago

When did they ship it? It was never shipped out to consumers iirc.