[mckilljoy]

As others are saying, Microsoft is a very large company with a great deal of variance in the quality and maturity of teams. I wouldn't consider this description representative.

Azure is still a comparably new team, so I'm not surprised if it is still sorting out its processes. I've hear similar descriptions of Bing teams, and other "startup" divisions in the company.

But there are definitely some brutally effective teams there that far outshine any other non-Microsoft team I've ever seen.