[Someone1234]

> We've been investing heavily in our user experience and our CI/CD experience

I'm on the "new" UI and I'm not seeing it. You've just re-skinned the same buggy and broken cruft that was there before.

It reminds me of the Visual Studio 2019 blog posts about new icons, themes, and fonts as their big new features while ignoring the massive performance problems people have been asking about for years.

DevOps with or without the new branding/UI is the same poorly designed product that doesn't know what it wants to be and is super un-polished. It would be better if you made it really good for one specific user scenario rather than poor for dozens.

[userbinator]

I don't think that's a lie. They have certainly invested heavily in changing the experience --- but unfortunately, and like many other products seem to be these days, just not in the way that you want.

(It's not just you. The "why did they spend all that effort to change things that didn't need to be changed" question has come up for me countless times upon seeing redesigns of other products.)

[taspeotis]

Generally the whole area gets a continuous stream of small and big features. You can click through the release notes [1] and see the changes they've made. Over the past twelve or so months they've jettisoned XAML-based builds and added YAML builds.

As someone who's used it through VSO/VSTS/ADO days it's got foibles but yes, it's improving continuously.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/

[tracker1]

I kind of wish they'd promote whoever is the UX lead for MS teams to cover other products... it's by far my favorite windows app, second to VS Code.

[zoeysaurusrex]

Honestly, while your criticisms are mostly fair, your approach is really unprofessional here. Yes, Microsoft is a massive company, but human beings are making this and I’ll guarantee you none of them are happy with where the product is. Please consider showing some compassion.

I’d also add that I use 2017 and 2019 daily, and build by build, I see massive improvements for performance.

[markbnj]

I don't see anything at all unprofessional about that reply. It's critical, but it is not unprofessional imo.