i agree with everything you said here except the last part.

lots of nines means not having significant downtime. we passed 99.99% hours ago, and we're on the way to 99.9%

No, lots of nines means they have SLAs of no significant downtime. It does not guarantee that the SLAs can never be missed, just that there will be consequences when it is missed. Lawyers and accountants and sales folks will sort out the compensation payments that come back to the customers and try to negotiate relationships back to a healthy state.

That’s purely a choice by those claiming the nines. I’ve worked in companies selling software with more than 6 nines uptime (so that we can be more confident about the 5 nines). Not 4 nines uptime plus some money back for the other one.

Stuff happens and things break everywhere but right now at Microsoft they break badly and often, that points to actual issues.

Almost certainly not the fault of individual people, it's a management failure of course

When was the last major M365 outage?

There are lots of talented amateurs. What separates professionals is standards, quality, teamwork, etc.

I agree there are many talented people at Microsoft, but I don’t see the professionalism in this incident.

Individual talent is irrelevant when you have a company culture that rewards the opposite of that. Any talented person working at Microsoft knows that they are dealing with structural problem that force MS products to be massive piles of shit. There isn't much an talented individual can do about that.

An organization can become fundamentally opposed to the purpose for which it was created. Organizations simply don't follow the same laws as the individuals inside it do. A company can be made of geniuses and be totally ineffective; it can be full of talented go-getters and be completely unable to fix problems.

Satya sock account found

ButtSlut5099, the finest detective since Sherlock Moans.

I realize I'm responding to somebody who isn't paying much effort, but still…

Isn't that comment saying the direct opposite? If it's a cultural problem, its precisely Satya's fault for not fixing it; that's the executives' job.

I was confused too, but I said hey, it's probably typical buttslut5099

the rot happens from the top

and at the top is an indian

and thus, the indian failure mode commences.

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Bit racist, don’t you think?

a bit?

The enshitification of Windows was not technical incompetence; it was intentional product direction.

They transformed Windows from a useful OS to a banal surveillance and advertising platform.

Microsoft's superpower has always been hiring smart people and making them work under dumb management to create flimsy, mediocre outcomes.

I'm not actually sure this is true anymore. It seems most of their talent has left.