Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

Post by rescbr » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #431

com2kid wrote: post #190

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> What are we reading here? These are extraordinary statements. Also with apparent credibility. I left Microsoft in 2014. Already back then I could see this sort of stuff starting to happen. The Office Org was mostly immune from it because they had a lot of lifers, people who had been working on the same code for decades and who thought through changes slowly. But even by 2014 there were problems hiring developers wh…

> But even by 2014 there were problems hiring developers who knew C++, or who wanted to learn it. COM? No way. It doesn't help that there are some teams that are hardcore in keeping things as they are and don't want any tooling that might improve COM development experience. To this day Microsoft is yet to have any COM related tooling for C++ as easy to use as C++ Builder does it. MFC, ATL, WRL, WIL,.... you name it.…

Post by steve1977 » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 2:07 PM UTC

gilrain wrote: post #445

steve1977 wrote: post #433

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The selling point of Excel is not the feature set, it's that people know Excel and are usually very resistant to learning something new.

As someone who’s compared spreadsheet feature sets, though: it’s also very much the feature set.

Post by SahAssar » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

jmogly wrote: post #111

Manouchehri wrote: post #96

I've seen Azure OpenAI leak other customer's prompt responses to us under heavy load. https://x.com/DaveManouchehri/status/2037001748489949388 Nobody seems to care.

This is insane, when you say azure OpenAI, do you mean like github copilot, microsoft copilot, hitting openai’s api, or some openai llm hosted on azure offering that you hit through azure? This is some real wild west crap!

Post by Manouchehri » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

SahAssar wrote: post #465

jmogly wrote: post #111

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This is insane, when you say azure OpenAI, do you mean like github copilot, microsoft copilot, hitting openai’s api, or some openai llm hosted on azure offering that you hit through azure? This is some real wild west crap!

I'd assume they mean https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry/models...

Post by rhyperior » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

petterroea wrote: post #238

A business man at a prior employer sympathetic with my younger, naive "Microsoft sucks" attitude told me something I remember to this day: Microsoft is not a software company, they have never been experts at software. They are experts at contracts. They lead because their business machine exceeds at understanding how to tick the boxes necessary to win contract bids. The people who make purchasing decisions at compani…