Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer(isolveproblems.substack.com)

1091 points by axelriet 6 months ago | 517 comments

A former Azure Core engineer's Substack essay, first in a series, on decisions and complacency at Microsoft that eroded trust in Azure, including with OpenAI.

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design(martinalderson.com)

80 points by martinald 6 months ago | 70 comments

Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs(theverge.com)

31 points by rntn 2 years ago | 35 comments

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)(dubroy.com)

137 points by azhenley 5 months ago | 53 comments

How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025(xania.org)

188 points by vitaut 1 year ago | 31 comments

I want a good parallel computer(raphlinus.github.io)

161 points by raphlinus 1 year ago | 132 comments

The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster(zdnet.com)

503 points by belter 1 year ago | 485 comments

ZDNET opinion piece by Ed Bott criticizing Microsoft's rebranding of Microsoft 365 to include Copilot and the accompanying price increase.

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold(jsnover.com)

748 points by naves 6 months ago | 529 comments

Jeffrey Snover's blog post arguing Microsoft has lacked a coherent Windows GUI development strategy for decades since the Petzold-era Win32 programming.

Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot(blogs.microsoft.com)

470 points by wgx 3 years ago | 328 comments

Microsoft blog post announcing the Copilot Copyright Commitment, under which Microsoft assumes legal liability for copyright claims against customers using Copilot outputs.

Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says(apnews.com)

669 points by cbg0 2 years ago | 734 comments

AP News article reporting that the European Union found Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams with its Office software.

I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records(blog.faav.net)

287 points by luispa 27 days ago | 120 comments

A security researcher's blog post describing a Microsoft internal analytics service flaw where unchecked token signatures allowed admin access to query 17.3 trillion records.

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition(minecraft.net)

944 points by SteveHawk27 1 year ago | 405 comments

Official Minecraft news article announcing that Mojang is removing code obfuscation from Minecraft: Java Edition.