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yeah, this is a take I see by people who work in unix like environments (including macs). If anything Microsoft will grow much bigger. People are consolidating in Azure and away from GCP. easier to manage costs and integrate with their fleet.

Windows workstations and servers are now "joined" to Azure instead, where they used to be joined to domain controller servers. Microsoft will soon enough stop supporting that older domain controller design (soon as in a decade).



Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) is definitely a huge enterprise Azure driver, and MS knows it.


And it’s crap.


Doesn't matter. It just needs to work well enough and Microsoft needs to be willing to use it as a point of leverage.

Both of which seem to be true.

Hell, I'm still amazed they got away with the Office-licenses-only-usable-on-Azure bullshit, but here we are.


compared to what? it isn't amazing but it's alright in my experience. it works and it seems like it's designed to give lots of people job security and lots of revenue streams for Microsoft though.




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