Because it's not the developers that choose the platform and Microsoft knows that.
They know how important developers are, that's why they bought Github. But developer experience is indeed one of the minor points of consideration when choosing a cloud vendor for large enterprise. Customer service, billing and integration into existing infrastructure is much more important.
>They know how important developers are,
Developers developers developers!
Re:Microsoft Azure Outage
by ed_elliott_asc on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:24AM
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Iād choose azure tbh - have used it because of work but am happy to stick with it.
And yet it continues to rake in billions + grow 20-40% month over month (even if it is slowing)