EVERYTHING about the federal government contracts program sucks ass! In the beginning, it was good as you didn't want people forcing through their brother, mother, 2nd cousin, next door neighbor, Satya Nadella and their "company" as a contractor without oversight cough Kristi Noem cough. However, it has devolved into a mess. The entire thing needs to be scrapped and re-engineered.
Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
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Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#162The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality. They can't solve problems that are much simpler than cloud computing, so why should I expect them to perform better at a more complex problem?
> The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality.
That's a common line by conservatives who are actively sabotaging government with policies and laws which they then point to as evidence of such inefficiencies.
Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I probably have five different systems This is the story of Microsoft - five different ways to do the thing, none of which do everything, and all of which are in various states of disrepair ranging from outright deprecation on up through feature-incomplete preview. Which one do you use? Who knows, but by the time you get everything moved over to that one and make allowances for all the stuff the one you chose doesn…
And now slap widespread vibe coding and PRs that reviewed by LLMs without anyone giving it a proper look.
We are now definitely doing a lot of that. My manager has been saying things like, "I don't even know how it works, but I used AI to build [thing], and I just sent it to a PR." He's very strong technically, but the mindset has absolutely shifted to, "move fast and break things, yoloooooo". It's frustrating to say the least.
Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#164Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#165Recently tried using Entra ID. There are 12 ways to enforce MFA, 20 days ways to disable users, 4 ways to authenticate users, Add conditional access stuff with 50 variables and templates etc. You can customize the way you want. After configuring it, my colleagues could not log in. Thats one way to secure your organization.
The problem is modern MS doing three contradictory things at the same time: - FB's move fast and break things . Constantly launching new libs. - Linus's we do not break user space . Great commitment to backwards compatibility. - Never deprecating dead products until they've been de facto abandoned for like decades. This combination means every MS product is a labyrinth of overlapping APIs with no guidance as to which…
> no guidance as to which one is actually the good one.
To some extent, you’re/we’re the ones deciding that,
because there’s entirely different teams heading the separate offerings,
and none of them are going to offer a potential footgun like:
“hey, we’re not the best modern path into xyz type projects, check with our colleagues on the Blazor team”,
unless someone makes them.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
And most of that is done on Macbooks by people that either can not or will not use Windows OS.
Wait, is this true? I would have imagined unless it’s about porting software or testing it, everyone would be forced to use Windows. If it is true, wonder what the proportion is then: 25%, 50%?
It's not true. Source - me, MSFT for 25 years.
Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#167The experts were correct. Azure is the biggest pile of shit I've ever had to work with. Everything feels evolutionary. In other words, a new product in azure is barely a product at all, but a small appendage which totally inherits a bunch of preexisting Azure "stuff." And all this preexisting stuff may not really make sense for the product, and it might inherit stuff that makes the product much worse. But, it doesn't…
As a Microsoftie of more than a decade... Yeah, I see this. We have an internal system called Cosmos[0] that does a great job of processing huge quantities of data very fast. And we sat on it for years while the rest of the industry moved to Spark and its derivatives. We finally released it as Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) but did a shit job of supporting/promoting it. We built Synapse, and it's garbage. We've now…
So the internal Cosmos DB has nothing to do with Cosmos DB the Azure product, which was an unwieldy assemblage of a graph DB, a NoSQL DB, a time series DB and an RDBMS last time I looked at it, but seems to have morphed into a "vector DB for AI" according to today's marketing?
Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#168when someone says they work at meta, they get weird looks, but no one assumes they're incompetent
when someone says they work at microsoft, they get weird looks, and people assume they're incompetent
Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#169The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality. They can't solve problems that are much simpler than cloud computing, so why should I expect them to perform better at a more complex problem?
Sure. Your average private corporation would do much better at sanely evaluating Microsoft's cloud, and sanely acting on that evaluation. Right. You bet. Absolutely.
Nope neither the public entity nor the private corporation... it should be the market. WE decide with our business who is worthy, or not. Nice try, comrade!
Re: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah that's the thing. Management who made the deals are never put into that frustration, or very rarely, and I always wonder, at least for the big corporations, if there is any greasy palms...
Manager humans will sell out your workflow, and indeed your entire workplace, for as little as a steak dinner.
Man, at least make a few dinners…