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Save that for your local mom-and-pop store: Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar corporation with enough resources to, at the very least, provide a reliable serv
by pera 2mo ago
Save that for your local mom-and-pop store: Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar corporation with enough resources to, at the very least, provide a reliable service for enterprise clients.
The "AI is using a lot of resources" excuse was maybe acceptable last year but not in Q3 2026.
- unknownfuture 2mo agoDoubly so given this is hardly a surprise. We've been on this trajectory for at least a couple of years now. They don't get to shrug, point at 10x volume, and act like they've been blindsided.
- mhitza 2mo agoThey had large increase in volume, and trying to move to Azure at the same time. I don't envy them for either work they need to do. But also don't feel pithy because it's Microslop, at the end of the day.
- pdimitar 2mo agoAll being said, I have most sympathy towards engineers of all people. They don't get to call the shots, they do as they are told. 99% of the time by an extremely out-of-touch managers. Managers and executives though? Those I do blame. Surely at this point it should be blindingly obvious their current strategy is not working.
- account42 2mo agoThose engineers also chose to work in US big tech for the ridiculously high salaries that come with it. Having to deal with the problems resulting from that scale is just part of the deal.
- inquirerGeneral 2mo ago[dead]
- m0llusk 2mo agoThe end of the day is now.
- grumple 2mo agoIf you use Azure you’d know they are definitely not able to scale up quickly. Tons of quotas and lack of availability.
- frollogaston 2mo agoOk but if the same problem will happen with the mom-and-pop store, switching there doesn't help. This isn't a moral dilemma, people just want their stuff to be up.
- account42 2mo agoThey are also at least partially responsible for and profit from the LLM spam.