[bigyabai]

> They could have shipped a good product with all those billions

They did. It's called Azure: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-tops-wall-street-exp...

[justinclift]

Not sure "good product" and "Azure" really belong in the same sentence.

Have you read this?

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

[bigfatkitten]

I know a few people who worked on Azure’s FedRAMP ATOs, and “good” is not a word I’ve ever heard them use.

[rsynnott]

That's largely a product of work in the 2010s. What's their next Azure? Clippy on steroids probably won't cut it.

[bigyabai]

Their next Azure is the same as the next App Store and the next YouTube; they are services, you just keep operating them while they're in the green.

Microsoft's B2C reputation is undeniably burnt, but their B2B mindshare is unshakable.

[ExoticPearTree]

In my experience so far with Azure, it shines at one single thing: IAM and to be used as an IdP.

Even with the free version you get phish-resistant MFA, SAML, OIDC, OAuth.

But go beyond that and it is messy:

- creating a single VM is an extremely convoluted process

- Intune needs up to 24 hours to appply changes to a managed computer

- There are at least two management consoles for Entra. Each with slightly different functionalities.

I don’t know how Microsoft is organized internally, but it feels like product organizations don’t talk to eachother and everybody is is just building stuff on top of Azure as if their thing is the only product MS ships.

[tacticus]

the cloud used because execs have already got a microsoft contract. (not to mention the fun licensing problem)