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> If, say, Microsoft is on a path towards decreasing relevance/marketshare/profitability That’s a big if. I see a lot of people in big enterprises who would n
by mr_toad 1y ago
> If, say, Microsoft is on a path towards decreasing relevance/marketshare/profitability
That’s a big if. I see a lot of people in big enterprises who would never even consider anything other than Microsoft and Azure.
- no_wizard 1y agoC# and .NET have a bigger market share than what gets talked about in trendy circles
- jtbaker 1y agoC#/.NET are nice. Azure/Microsoft Cloud not so nice. Idk, maybe I have some bias due to familiarity, but I find the GCP admin and tools to be so much more intuitive than the Azure (and AWS too, for that matter) counterparts.
- jstummbillig 1y agoOh dear lord, GCP could be the intuitive one?! I have not used anything else but, dear lord, that's shocking and not at all surprising at the same time.
- arresin 1y agoAny speculation on why none of them can make a UI and UX that is not 100% completely shit and makes you feel miserable and stressed out? Couldn’t they just throw money at the problem? Or fire the criminals who designed it?
- xp84 1y agoAll the cloud platforms do not care about UI/UX at all. Although GCP gets honorable mention for being pretty consistent and I have to admit not too bad. But anyway none of them care because it’s expected that 90% of the usage of the platform will be via a CLI or some abstraction (k8s, terraform, etc etc). So, they put minimum effort into UI quality, usefulness, consistency, appearance. That’s my understanding anyway
- jstummbillig 1y agoa) Design is super hard when your product MUST do a lot (and GCP definitely has to do a lot) b) You design for the audience. The complexity that person-who-would-ever-use-GCP will deal with is far beyond what the average internet user would ever endure.
- biglyburrito 1y agoYeah, agreed. I love C# & the .NET platform; I do not feel the same way about Azure. It’s still way better than GCP, though.
- 91bananas 1y agoYeah this is not the case at all lol. I actually find Azure to be far more intuitive after suffering through AWS and a little GCP. It certainly seems more stable in US regions than AWS. One thing I will say is the Azure documentation is some of the most cumbersome to navigate I've ever experienced, there is a dearth of information in there, you just have to know how to find it.
- marcosdumay 1y agoThe big question is if we are finally in a moment when big enterprises will be allowed to fail due to the infinite number of bad choices they make. Because things are going to change soon. What nobody know is what things exactly, and in what direction.
- notepad0x90 1y agoyeah, this is a take I see by people who work in unix like environments (including macs). If anything Microsoft will grow much bigger. People are consolidating in Azure and away from GCP. easier to manage costs and integrate with their fleet. Windows workstations and servers are now "joined" to Azure instead, where they used to be joined to domain controller servers. Microsoft will soon enough stop supporting that older domain controller design (soon as in a decade).
- ethbr1 1y agoEntra (formerly Azure Active Directory) is definitely a huge enterprise Azure driver, and MS knows it.
- semiquaver 1y agoAnd it’s crap.
- ethbr1 1y agoDoesn't matter. It just needs to work well enough and Microsoft needs to be willing to use it as a point of leverage. Both of which seem to be true. Hell, I'm still amazed they got away with the Office-licenses-only-usable-on-Azure bullshit, but here we are.
- notepad0x90 1y agocompared to what? it isn't amazing but it's alright in my experience. it works and it seems like it's designed to give lots of people job security and lots of revenue streams for Microsoft though.