I’m pretty sure they hired Asha Sharma just to gut the entire Xbox department and force its closure. It’s losing them money, but they want to continue to pretend that they care about gaming.
They’ll hype up the PR, pretend that they are restructuring, and then announce some “sad news” that they had to completely shudder the Xbox brand after a few years of pretending.
The thing is that Microsoft isn’t doing great in the Windows department, either. They are pissing off so many people that they’re losing grip of their near monopoly. And Copilot is almost as bad as Llama in terms of LLMs.
Copilot isn’t an LLM. It’s just an application layer that utilizes other 3rd party LLMs like gpt. I think it’s shit because it’s usually a few versions behind and they put guard rails and external data filtering on their application layer.
I really don’t understand Azure. Their whole marketing, at least a year ago, was that it’s cheaper than AWS. But it literally isn’t?
I did the comparison and AWS was consistently cheaper in every scenario that I tried. I may be wrong, because the pricing with these services is so purposefully made difficult to understand that both companies have released calculators just so you can make an approximation.
So far the only thing Azure has going for it are the managed Microsoft services, like Azure AD. And even those are kinda bad, when you consider after a certain company size it’s cheaper to have a sysadmin manage a local server with an AD (or whatever other service).
I also hate both Azure and AWS and don’t use them. Fuck both companies. But yeah, I don’t understand the Azure business model when there is AWS.
My guess is that they offer some dumb discount package to businesses via their use of AD and Windows, which only lasts a year.
Otherwise I have no idea why everyone’s c suite falling for the azure sales rep spiel is the exact same story of losing money after hopping off AWS every time I hear about it.
I’m pretty sure they hired Asha Sharma just to gut the entire Xbox department and force its closure. It’s losing them money, but they want to continue to pretend that they care about gaming.
They’ll hype up the PR, pretend that they are restructuring, and then announce some “sad news” that they had to completely shudder the Xbox brand after a few years of pretending.
The thing is that Microsoft isn’t doing great in the Windows department, either. They are pissing off so many people that they’re losing grip of their near monopoly. And Copilot is almost as bad as Llama in terms of LLMs.
What the fuck do they have left? Office?
Copilot isn’t an LLM. It’s just an application layer that utilizes other 3rd party LLMs like gpt. I think it’s shit because it’s usually a few versions behind and they put guard rails and external data filtering on their application layer.
So it’s basically duck.ai from duckduckgo but no privacy
Office and Azure mainly. But Azure is getting spanked by AWS.
I hate Amazon too btw. Just adding more information.
I really don’t understand Azure. Their whole marketing, at least a year ago, was that it’s cheaper than AWS. But it literally isn’t?
I did the comparison and AWS was consistently cheaper in every scenario that I tried. I may be wrong, because the pricing with these services is so purposefully made difficult to understand that both companies have released calculators just so you can make an approximation.
So far the only thing Azure has going for it are the managed Microsoft services, like Azure AD. And even those are kinda bad, when you consider after a certain company size it’s cheaper to have a sysadmin manage a local server with an AD (or whatever other service).
I also hate both Azure and AWS and don’t use them. Fuck both companies. But yeah, I don’t understand the Azure business model when there is AWS.
My guess is that they offer some dumb discount package to businesses via their use of AD and Windows, which only lasts a year.
Otherwise I have no idea why everyone’s c suite falling for the azure sales rep spiel is the exact same story of losing money after hopping off AWS every time I hear about it.