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There is no "old" or "new" microsoft. Time and time again they've shown us they are still the same old thing. Company DNA is what it is. Uber also falls into this category.

Don't let yourself be fooled by the same trick repeatedly.



Or we could accept that huge enterprises have a lot of institutional inertia, and real change plays out over a decade+.

Or as the quip goes: culture doesn't change until the previous generation retires or dies.


Huge enterprises are big enough they don't care about you.

You need to pick right sized providers so that you'll get decent service.

Relying on Google, AWS or Microsoft and not paying them millions means they won't give a crap about you.


Meh, Microsoft is enormously different than they used to be. They still might not be what you want, but they aren't the same.




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