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by dacryn 509 days ago
same here.

I guess it's Microsoft slowly making it cater to their enterprise clients

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Microsoft is getting ready to replace Azure DevOps with GitHub.
This is fiction considering Microsoft is extensively using Azure DevOps internally and is still developing it. Moving projects away from it and to GitHub is impossible because they're incredibly far from having feature parity.
Feature parity is probably not required as long as the different teams are able to adapt their workflow to GitHub's approach. Anecdotally, every employee from Microsoft I've talk to about this point during the last two years keep telling me that ADO is over.
Feature parity is absolutely required. We are ADO customer because A) Inertia and B) GH Actions is nowhere close to features of ADO Pipelines.

Every conversation we have with Microsoft about our ADO -> GH migration is either get GH to feature party or if you force us to migrate, we will evaluate ALL our options.

People have been saying this for half a decade, and fearmongering everyone into moving elsewhere (sadly my team fell for it).

Azure Devops is such an underrated tool, it's a shame that it's being ignored by Microsoft. Not only that, but they're enshittifying it by turning into Github. I kid you not, it actually went backwards in terms of features. E.g. Instead of nifty UIs that was implemented for their pipelines, we now instead have to write shitty yaml files with absolutely no validation and guidance. This is the same company that (re)wrote Word, Excel and Powerpoint in the browser! The mental whiplash from witnessing this is very jarring.