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Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by zitterbewegung »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #102

Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole…

I would rather have a bug report basically ignored than actually modified. There is a big difference between ignored and modified because it speaks to not only we are going to ignore this but no one will respect the content of the forum.

I remember when an admin for reddit changed a bunch of comments and it was controversial when he did it an they introduced a policy that would disallow engineers to have that kind of access to the database [1]

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by theturtletalks »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #102

Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole…

VS Code and GitHub will hard carry Azure if need be

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by duxup »

oblio wrote: post #67
hulitu wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows is not accesible even to people without disdabilities. I have to carefully select the background color or else i will end up with a light text colour on light background or dark text colour on dark background. Or to search half of hour for the cursor in a Word document because Microsoft decided that blinking the cursor is so 80s and the cursor is hidden.

Doesn't Windows have a high contrast mode?

Yes it does.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by WillDaSilva »

Kelamir wrote: post #106
pjmlp wrote: post #98

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Sure, because Nintendo is such a great example of openness towards FOSS communities.

Is it sarcasm, or they are really open to FOSS communities, pjmlp? Tone deaf reader here.

It is sarcasm. Nintendo is extremely hostile towards perceived infringements on their IP, and go out of their way to make modding and fan content difficult to use.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by xkbarkar »

I’ve done contract work for Microsoft, Amazon and Google.

Microsoft is remarkably terrible. Riddled with the hierarchies and politics of IBM or Oracle, but the lack the self awareness that they are slow and terrible. And Azure solutions are not good at all. They have truly bizarre backwards apis and SDK. Imagine you do not have admin access to the company DC. Now, your Azure k8s cluster pods need rw access to an azure keyvault that you created.

It is entirely possible to do this, but enjoy the hell ride there.

My hats off to you if you manage to figure it out in 1 workday.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by azemetre »

theturtletalks wrote: post #122
cjbgkagh wrote: post #102

Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole…

VS Code and GitHub will hard carry Azure if need be

Shouldn't that be the other way around? What good is it for a company if the only products people end up using are the ones given for free?

I'm sure other software companies faced similar fates (no one paying for services, only using freely available services) but I can't think of any ATM.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by whydid »

theturtletalks wrote: post #122
cjbgkagh wrote: post #102

Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole…

VS Code and GitHub will hard carry Azure if need be

Given enough time, they all will rot.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by theturtletalks »

azemetre wrote: post #126
theturtletalks wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VS Code and GitHub will hard carry Azure if need be

Shouldn't that be the other way around? What good is it for a company if the only products people end up using are the ones given for free? I'm sure other software companies faced similar fates (no one paying for services, only using freely available services) but I can't think of any ATM.

I’m thinking vertical integration where you write your code on VS, host it and collaborate on GitHub, and deploy to Azure. I always thought GitHub was a hedge for Azure against the other cloud providers.
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