... Because of the shoving

Imagine your company announced a new initiative where everybody's job would become "manager".

Would you do to work for a company where every single person including yourself was a manager?

This idea is silly because it asserts that we can replace work with management. But management is just more work, so we can just replace it with more management, and I think if you follow the logic to its outcome no work needs to be done by anyone anymore ever

Or the flip side - copilot is an unorganized mess and feels way behind OpenAI. Maybe making people use it will put pressure to make it better. Windows NT -- David Cutler has a rule about eating your own dogfood. I don't think they eat enough of it at Microsoft anymore with the lack of build quality in the last few years when they laid off their big QA team.

Some of the stuff I've seen M365 Copilot do is just flat out broken and awful and it's presented in their enterprise (stable) channels.

Yes this is exactly how Microsoft works. Every little metric is a KPI for someone. The little king of the hill for using @mention in teams. The king for using using the Edge shopping bar. The king for using the weather widget on the task bar.

And each of them seems to have free reign to Hassle the users as much as they can.

Then they must be playing 4D chess or something for as catastrophically shitty as the implementation is

I don't really think about azure because I choose not to support Microsoft. Also, as of now I have had very little personal use for running servers, besides things that can easily be hosted almost anywhere.

I'm sure it's convenient for some people with certain projects.

I think Linux is a superior operating system to Windows in almost every way. This is supported by the fact that over 60% of azure servers run Linux [1].

Windows operating system is a walled off garden of intellectual property that wastes billions of dollars every year. Schools, government agencies, hospitals, etc all are spending an incredible amount on proprietary software and this is mainly benefitting a very small amount of people. Yet, thier shitty spyware OS is actually worse then the open source alternative. I think this is a moral failure for humans.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/...

A startup I worked at a few years ago used Azure. In theory it’s _fine_ but I wasted many hours tracking down phantom issues because the Azure admin UI was super buggy.

It could be they need to force usage to generate more quality training data over the MS codebase. You'll get a huge amount of prompt/llm_answer/human_correction instances if all MS programmers are forced to produce these e en if initially it does not increase or even decreases their productivity.

We saw the same in the early offshoring days. Firms forcing this on their project leads, knowingly expecting, accepting and swallowing the productivity losses to learn how to set this up for the promise of future cost savings.