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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by jstummbillig on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:40AM (#45733504)
Oh dear lord, GCP could be the intuitive one?! I have not used anything else but, dear lord, that's shocking and not at all surprising at the same time.
Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by 91bananas on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:53AM (#45733666)
Yeah this is not the case at all lol. I actually find Azure to be far more intuitive after suffering through AWS and a little GCP. It certainly seems more stable in US regions than AWS.

One thing I will say is the Azure documentation is some of the most cumbersome to navigate I've ever experienced, there is a dearth of information in there, you just have to know how to find it.

Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by latentsea on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:17PM (#45740565)
Doesn't a dearth mean a lack of?
Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by 91bananas on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:29PM (#45761859)
Probably. I guess I meant a shit ton, but written in a series of confusing "choose your own adventure" style bursts of 40 new browser tabs to figure anything out.
Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by bn-l on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:14PM (#45739290)
Any speculation on why none of them can make a UI and UX that is not 100% completely shit and makes you feel miserable and stressed out?

Couldn’t they just throw money at the problem? Or fire the criminals who designed it?

Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by xp84 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:59AM (#45747692)
All the cloud platforms do not care about UI/UX at all. Although GCP gets honorable mention for being pretty consistent and I have to admit not too bad. But anyway none of them care because it’s expected that 90% of the usage of the platform will be via a CLI or some abstraction (k8s, terraform, etc etc). So, they put minimum effort into UI quality, usefulness, consistency, appearance. That’s my understanding anyway
Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by jstummbillig on Friday October 31, 2025 @07:46AM (#45770968)
a) Design is super hard when your product MUST do a lot (and GCP definitely has to do a lot)

b) You design for the audience. The complexity that person-who-would-ever-use-GCP will deal with is far beyond what the average internet user would ever endure.

Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by biglyburrito on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:44PM (#45740821)
Yeah, agreed. I love C# & the .NET platform; I do not feel the same way about Azure. It’s still way better than GCP, though.