Im coming up to 30 years in IT – and am now towards the end of my career….

On one hand, i’ve liked designing and implementing solutions… and like solving issues…. but on the other, IT is not a great industry…. not really respected (probably fairly), many very poorly skilled people around that get paid obscene salaries by sales organisations to do shit work, vendors that use sales techniques that make used car salespeople look trustworthy, unnecessary complexity and constant movement of one fad to the next (java, thin clients, blockchain, cloud, AI etc) – not because they will make anything better…. but because they give something for otherwise useless conmen to sell.

Anyhoo – what disappoints me most is seeing Microsoft products devolve into Microslop products… updates now frequently seem to involve making the user experience worse, performance is far worse despite hardware being obscenely faster, the management of many products is consistently made harder, forcing integrations that aren’t wanted and sometimes breach regualtory requirements (e.g. copilot), removing access for admins so they must contact “support” for basic fixes in Azure/M365… its just…. sad.

I know its not going to change… not in the short timeframe i have left…. but i just feel embarassed now to to say i work with this complete shit of an ecosystem.

i did particualrly like this series of posts – https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion – it gives some insight into as to why things are so incredibly shit – and the mindset that has got us here.