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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

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151 points ArcHound | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 20:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bob1029 ◴[25 Jun 25 21:41 UTC] No.44382065[source]▶
The trick with Microsoft is to very carefully separate the good parts from the bad ones.

Labeling all of Microsoft as banned is really constraining your technology options. This is a gigantic organization with a very diverse set of people in it.

There aren't many things like .NET, MSSQL and Visual Studio out there. The debugger experience in VS is the holy grail if you have super nasty real world technology situations. There's a reason every AAA game engine depends on it in some way.

Azure and Windows are where things start to get bad with Microsoft.

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iimblack ◴[25 Jun 25 23:32 UTC] No.44382784[source]▶
How do you separate the good from the bad? What do you do when Microsoft changes the good things into bad things?

My take is that Microsoft consistently makes bad things and makes "good" things into "bad" things; so, I don't have much expectation or faith that anything that I currently think is "good" will stay that way.

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mrweasel ◴[26 Jun 25 07:08 UTC] No.44384957[source]▶
> How do you separate the good from the bad?

Developer tools and enterprise stuff good (mostly). Consumer products bad.

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1. herbst ◴[26 Jun 25 08:25 UTC] No.44385354[source]▶
For whom? Microsoft?

I don't know which of their developer tools I would consider good. Or less worse than the competition

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2. mrweasel ◴[26 Jun 25 08:57 UTC] No.44385514[source]▶
I consider C# / .NET to be one of the best options for application development.

Many would consider both VSCode and Visual Code pretty good. There might be better alternatives, but generally I'd say they are more good then bad. Github is also a good product. Maybe not exactly a develop tool, but Power BI is also fairly good.

Borderline developer / enterprise solution: SQLServer is great to work with. Maybe not the best relational database server, but it's every bit as capable as MariaDB and I'd prefer it over Oracle.