Témoignage d'un ancien ingénieur d'Azure (le cloud de Microsoft). Apparemment, Azure est vraiment un feu de poubelle, monté à la va-vite pour concurrencer Amazon AWS, sans réelle vision. Situation aggravée par le fait que les ingénieurs séniors - ceux qui maitrisaient vraiment le truc - se sont barrés, et le fait que Microsoft préfère investir dans l'IA que dans les personnes.

Partie 1 : https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
Partie 2 : https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-8f4
Partie 3 : https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-f67
Partie 4 : https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-2f5
Partie 5 : https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-841
Partie 6 : https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-b73

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The technology giant won the award for publishing a May blog post that threatened security researchers with legal action if they publish zero-days about its products.

Microsoft DELETED my account AND OneDrive!!?? After ACKNOWLEDGING that I’m the owner of the account and that it was compromised???

25 fucking years of data, thousands of euros spended on games?? My son’s baby pictures? GONE!

All because MICROSOFT couldn’t bring back a compromised account??
One of the biggest companies ever coulnd’t do that so they just deleted that shit like it was nothing?? Fucking shame on you!!

Azure is also not enough for Copilot, so Microsoft turns to the compute of AWS.

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L’idée du projet Solara n’est pour autant pas dénuée d’intérêt. Si les agents IA tiennent leur promesse, ils pourraient effectivement aider à créer à la volée des interfaces et des outils bien plus adaptés aux besoins spécifiques de chaque utilisateur. Alors que les logiciels traditionnels (et même les OS) imposent un fonctionnement identique pour tous, un agent pourrait en théorie composer une expérience sur mesure et selon le contexte.

Mais au final, l'OS pourrait tourner sur Android, soit Linux. À la fin du projet, Microsoft abandonnerait donc Windows pour Linux.

s’il y a une chose que j’ai apprise dans cette recherche, c’est ceci : la plupart des trajets ne déraillent pas sur de la mauvaise technologie. Ils déraillent sur l’absence d’une réponse partagée à la question : qu’est-ce qu’on veut réellement atteindre ?

Suite au mail qui faisait perdre 2-3h par semaine aux

Et puis le ministre a fait quelque chose que je reconnais dans chaque trajet de transformation que j’ai étudié. En pleine crise, il a dit : on n’apprend pas à faire du vélo en regardant.

Le Schleswig-Holstein a économisé 15 millions d'euros sur les licences Microsoft, entre autres grâce à ce choix.

Microsoft serves a AI diagram that is clearly plagiarism.

take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.

and a sloppy content compared to the original

Let's call the company Microslop

So wait: Microsoft uses WEB technology for the Windows 11 interface. So everything is much heavier and slower. So slow that even the file explorer takes a long time to start up.So what's Microsoft's solution?Preload the file explorer into memory so that it displays immediately when you click on it.So it will eat up RAM and CPU when the machine is turned on.

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A critic against Microsoft. The Outages become frequent.

I totally agree.

If you complain that you have a problem with #Windows
and are unhappy that people on Fediverse always bring up #Linux
when you come here to post your complaint, I have a question: instead of here, have you tried the #Microsoft
support or forums?

I mean at some point the "I just want Windows to work" is a fair and understandable point, but it will just be shouting in the wind if you don't bring your complaints to the people and company making it.

And I say that as an IT tech, I know how it works: if there's no support ticket about a problem, there's no feedback proof, and therefore the problem officially doesn't exist.

EDIT: to be very clear, I'm not writing all this with the intent of presenting MS forums and support as the best way to solve your problems with their products.

It's more that, as someone who deals with how tech support is handled on a daily basis, as I mentioned above, companies have processes for all that, and I can guarantee you that when it comes to handling feedback, they follow them strictly, especially when it comes to being held accountable for unwanted features or overall problems.

Users are being unhappy with ads or AI features and complain they can't deactivate them all? "Where are the tickets at our support to back that up?" is gonna be their answer. And we all know most of us, most of the overall user base never bother with that, leaving the gates full open for Microsoft to be like those aren't issues for the majority of users.

If windows is so problematic, then GNU/Linux can be the solution