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r13i
May 05, 2025Copper Contributor
Congratulations, Microsoft products couldn't have been worse even if you tried.
I was thinking why should I bother posting about this, who would read it, and would it make Microsoft any better if someone reads this? But the world would never improve if no one reports this kind of bad design. So here we go.
- Why make it so hard to sign up for Azure, register an app, set up permissions, register an app in the MDN (whatever the F it stands for), just to be able to connect to build an ETL job that pulls from multi-tenant onedrive.
- Why so much text everywhere that it becomes unreasonable to read and find information that matters.
- Why pretend you have an AI called Copilot when it doesn't have access to data and all it does is spit back information from the docs.
How to fix this?
- Put yourself in the shoes of someone new who's integrating Microsoft products for the first time. No assumptions. No required prior knowledge.
- Less text, straight to the point.
- No weird error messages with complicated Error IDs. If no one understands them, why bother bloat the limited screen space with it? Why not have an actual AI that can give concrete pointers instead of showing a link to a generic documentation page?
This could go on, but I'm gonna practice what I preach and get straight to the point with the suggestions above.
The only moat Microsoft has is the heavy corporate contracts that bind stupid corporations to use Microsoft products and services. The moment a new provider with simpler/faster/cheaper services shows up, developers and people working day-to-day with Microsoft services will gladly migrate over.
My 2-cent bottle in the sea.
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