[jiggawatts]

I tried explaining this to some Azure product teams, and they gave me a blank stare in return.

Sure, you can have zone-redundant Azure SQL Databases, but not Azure App Service!

You can have zonal Azure App Service, but with a different network model than the default, so it's a breaking change for some apps.

It's as if nobody has actually sat down at Microsoft to build something similar to what their customers are building. It's all just tech demos, "get your blog hosted in 5 easy steps", and crap like that. Nobody at Microsoft has ever built anything of substance with the majority of their own platform.

It was the same story with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It was hot garbage when it was first released, but Microsoft kept telling all their partners to prefer it over the legacy GDI+. People tried and failed to write GUIs in it. When after many years Microsoft finally tried to convert Visual Studio to WPF -- the first time they had used their own framework for one of their own apps -- magically the core issues were fixed and WPF become viable for real apps.

[mathattack]

My experience with MSFT is that the account reps are clueless by design. Even the sales assistants with fancy technical titles are short of clues. Easier for them to oversell when they don’t know what’s really going on underneath. We have to go 3 or 4 deep into their product org to find someone who will fess up to product issues that we are already aware of.

[kaliszad]

Also they now require you to become Microsoft Partner, if you want to use the oauth2 login not only for personal Microsoft accounts but also other Microsoft accounts such as those provided by a business running Office 365. They changed it ~ 3 months ago and are now not able to verify people in time. Even if they just want to check your name, email and maybe a profile picture and nothing else. The process is much less obvious than for the same thing with Google or Facebook. Even the ZIP-Code has to include spaces as if it was written on a letter, otherwise you will not be able to send the form, aaaand there is no hint about this requirement.

In general, Microsoft, Google and others are behaving really enterprise-y in that they are slow, you cannot reach anybody of importance to solve massive issues with their products and everything is actually quite expensive for what it does.