Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer (isolveproblems.substack.com)

A former Azure Core engineer argues that Microsoft’s Azure trust was undermined by costly, unrealistic engineering plans—such as considering porting large parts of Windows-era functionality to tiny Overlake/accelerator hardware and carrying an excessive number of management agents without clear justification. The author describes how the effort ran into practical scaling limits and a lack of detailed understanding across teams, contributing to delays and damaging credibility with customers and the US government.