Agreed, but being one of the people who periodically need to consume many Microsoft internal apps and web sites, I will just have to differ on how effective I find them 😊I’ve been so frustrated by some of the ones I need to use, that I’ve volunteered to help fix them. It would be quicker for me to fix the app for them, than to need to interact with it.

 

But it’s Friday so:

 

My biggest issues are still around identity. I’m having yet another week struggling to work out how to sort out issues with Microsoft identities. I do not understand why this needs to be so hard.

 

I’ve dealt with Amazon for a very long time. To this day, I still use the same identity I created when I first used them, and it works for all services that I purchase from them.

Same with Google. Same with Apple, etc.

 

But with Microsoft, I’ve been pushed into needing a string of identities over the years, with incompatible identity systems, incompatible Microsoft service requirements for identity, etc.

 

Why does this have to continue?

 

And the support for this in many areas has moved to forum-based support that is extremely poor. Here’s a fine example of “support” that I received yesterday:

 

 

 

I’ve been trying to work out if that’s the worst “support” response I’ve ever received.

 

So, I then guessed that I needed to contact MCP support, instead of MCT support (as clearly they don’t have a clue, even though they are closely associated), and today I woke up to:

 

A moderator has deleted a thread you were following, How do I change my email address on my certification profile?. It's possible that the thread was off topic, violated the Code of Conduct, or was just a duplicate thread.

 

I have no idea what the issue was as they’d already deleted the thread. It might be because I’m asking how to change the email address, and they assume that’s a duplicate. But I can’t find any previous discussion now, apart from changing it via the Learn profile, which clearly doesn’t work.

 

I don’t get why there isn’t some Microsoft VP screaming at people to fix it. I know I want to, and I’m a calm person.

 

It’s gone on way too long.

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

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From: David Connors via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Blazor popularity and use

 

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 13:44, Dr Greg Low <greg@sqldownunder.com> wrote:

Yep, we talk about browsers like there’s consistency there. There still isn’t. And it’s a huge hit on productivity. I see so much lost effort trying to align pixels across different browsers, different versions of browsers, etc. It’s just silly.

 

I remember being on a web app project. I was doing the data bits, and there were 10 devs doing the web parts.

 

After 6 months, I looked at what the other 10 had produced and knew I could have built that myself in a winform app in a fortnight, by myself.

 

This is probably more down to approach. If they were building from scratch by themselves, then I agree, productivity will be terrible; however on the flip side, you have to remember that 80+% of the cost of software is after the code is written and in the support phase. For our internal apps, we use a commercial off the shelf theme and a couple of other components and stick with those. The consistency of UI layout, responsiveness across form factors etc is all done very cost effectively by using something like: https://angular-material.fusetheme.com/dashboards/project - best $700 you'll ever spend. 

 

If ease of development was our primary concern we would all be building Microsoft Access apps. 

 

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