[CurtHagenlocher]

It's interesting that this was enabled by the Drawbridge work. I was somewhat under the impression that Drawbridge was dead and/or superseded by other container-related projects. It's often weirdly hard to find out what's going on with some particular Microsoft project or technology, even for those of us who are employees. I was pretty excited about Drawbridge ~3 years ago when I was working with it but it subsequently seemed to have vanished.

[Josteniok]

I created an account just to reply to this. You said, "It's often weirdly hard to find out what's going on with some particular Microsoft project or technology..." I was just thinking that very thing today. Why is that?

[13of40]

It's not as bad as Amazon, apparently. I've known people there who say everything is compartmentalized. At Microsoft, it's typically only the bleeding edge stuff they keep secret internally.

[JdeBP]

Keeping things secret is only a part of the problem. Corporate utter forgetfulness of the past is another. Consider the tale related by Stephen Walli (referenced at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560510) about the Microsoft people who didn't even know that Microsoft had the SFUA/SUA with Windows NT.

> "I had to explain to the [Windows High Performance Computing team] that they already owned the technology they needed, but to no avail. They couldn't get their head around the idea."

[killbrad]

I'd be interested in specifics on either side.

[sievebrain]

Organising and propagating information throughout a large organisation takes significant effort.