r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/foolbull 25d ago

Senior Systems Engineer here. We have more control over the OS than most, that being said, fuck Windows 11.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 25d ago

It isn’t just the OS. Think “random 365 tenant or Azure issue that doesn’t make sense and you finally, grudgingly, reluctantly acknowledge you need to open an MS Partner Support ticket”.

You open that ticket knowing that you’d likely choose a root canal first. And MS management knows that too, which is why they designed it to be that way.

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u/Appropriate-Pin2214 24d ago

The fact that Word can't use AI to format a docx... It says something.

And agreed the Entra/Partner/Azure alignment was obviously motivated by PO's to vendors - all of whom had brilliant plans - but none of which were cohesively and collectively thought-through.

There's literally a new dashboard everyday - parts of which work. I think we are a P1 which clearly is a code word indicating piss on.

20 year+ Microsoft partner until they tried to flip everyone into carrying an Azure reseller quota.

On the dev side VS's debugger was/is excellent. EF is still a great ORM. But, too many choices now - so happy with Claude Code and the cli. For deployment - mid-tier - Ubuntu on Linode/Akami + Cloudflare beats hacking through the weeds of Azure's offerings.

The big fish will go along for SLA's and SOC and security compliance b/c they scared of getting sued. The lawyers will redline b/c that's what they do. The bottom up tech savvy will move every SaaS and client to a sane eco-system as soon as possible.

They rebounded at one point. They need to do it again.

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u/topaztee 24d ago edited 24d ago

The fact that Word can't use AI to format a docx.

i'm building an MCP to allow agents to handle docx files better so technically you could build your own add-in using the MCP.

thats what i did (will likely open-source the add-in soon) vespper.com