Lol, no.

It is true that writing to the board will get you noticed, and that you might not like the consequences. If you value having the job then don’t write to the board. Even if you are right, being noticed like that isn’t going to endear you to your boss.

But if you care more about doing the right thing then writing to the board is the right thing to do. And after a few years of working at Microsoft you might not value your job very much either and you too might decide to go out in style.

Go watch the last episode of Chernobyl again.

Windows is ~500 times bigger than Azure, give or take, by machine count, and still many times larger by loc, modules, users, whatever else you want to measure. The heavy lifting (VM/containers, I/O, the things that cannot not be done just like that) is handled by the Windows folks anyway. The only hard part is the VM placement, everything else is mostly regular software engineering, some of medium-hard complexity but nothing that can excuse the need for constant human intervention.

Thanks for the free psychology assessment, I appreciate it, but I believe I’m fine. The series omits lots of details.

from a philosophy grad. both these responses are logical fallacies.

1: it's bad, but so is everything else (ad populum, everyone does it so it's ok).

2: it can only be because the author has a personality disorder or psychotic break (ad hominem)

It reminded me of this one:

https://wtfmitchel.medium.com/how-to-get-fired-from-microsof...

A lot of similarities, except the medium author was not part of PG but support. He also had recently suffered a brain injury.

Redacted to avoid getting doxxed (my original reply showed disdain for the parent comment and agreed with Axel's writing).