People get a lot of cash, house and other benefits when they pick up suppliers.
And if they don't get a direct bribe, for some reasons, they end up as VP of what ever branch more or less directly related to their previous job as client.
Someone yanked your chain with this one. Nobody gets a house or a job at Microsoft for buying Microsoft, these cases can't even register in the statistic of the total volume of orders. Every tech company would buy you a house if that worked, when a house is always a rounding error on the value of the contracts we're talking about.
They buy it because it's the "safe", "does everything" choice that "everyone else has". It's easier to deal with a single party than it is to get licenses and support from 20 other suppliers that then blame each other when there are issues at the border between 2 of the products. You can talk to anyone else who has Teams, your files are always fully compatible, all of the rest of your software integrates, single identity, etc. A lot of good it is that you have Google Meet and Libre Office when the partners you work closes to have Teams and MS Office.
Users are proficient with the products, you can find skilled admins everywhere. Incumbency has a lot of inertia.
So you have to pay millions in support contracts every year, it's the cost of doing business. So MS gets hacked every other day, what could you have done about it better when even MS (!!!) couldn't?
This is the same comment we’re referring to right? The one that said that MS gets contracts because they buy houses and cars or give jobs to the people deciding where the contract goes?
That’s someone who read a couple of articles on corruption and just extrapolated to “all of it must be the same”.
If you browse HN everyday, at least once a weak, you'll see security issues related to Azure and Microsoft product, to the point that Microsoft stopped bounty programs or don't include some products.
If you want to establish a pattern or rule you’ll need way more than one example you can’t give.
Is Google’s search engine used just because they give money to those who do? Because they pay Apple and Mozilla. Just set Google as default and the check’s in the mail right?
The last paragraph was obviously a diss at MS for costing a lot in support and having shitty security. Anyone with first hand experience (as opposed to hearing the stories) with MS contracts and heard the justifications again and again doesn’t need the joke explained.
Exactly this. A while back, a greybeard told me "CVS never flew anyone to the Bahamas for a few rounds of bikini golf", when I was complaining about my employer picking the version control system and torture device "Serena Dimensions".
I rewrote two times my personal tool, one to rust, and out of rust with LLM, I mainly "vibe code" for reasons but the tool is more complete and less buggy than most B2B and enterprise business or IT software that I have seen in 20years at different fortune 100.
I feel the effort and frustration to have parity with LLM is more than doing a full rewrite without.
Claude/Opus 4.6 Can you add a console.log in food XYZ?
No problem, x agents, hundreds/closed to one million token usage to add a line of code.
Gemini 3 : can you review the commit A (console.log one ) you have made the most significant change in your 200kloc code base, this key change will allow you to get great insight into your software.
Codex : I have reviewed your change, you are missing tests and integration tests.
But I fully agree, overall I feel there are a lot of tea leaves readers online and LinkedIn.
Could was yeah nice to have.
Should, was yeah the system shall have it, but it's ok if not.
Shall : ffs we will hunt you and kill you if you don't implement it.
Between Claude, codex and Gemini, Gemini is the best at flip floping while gaslighting you and telling you, you are the best thing, your ideas are the best one ever.
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