Microsoft's mobile device management meltdown Microsoft UK’s online enterprise mobility device management service Intune suffered a near four-hour wobble this morning that was rectified early in the afternoon. The firm ‘fessed up to “issues” and to “service degradation” on its online service status page at 9am. “We continue to work on a configuration change to speed up …
Sources close to the matter revealed that the internal array used to hold live device information was sized to reflect the projected sales of Windows phones for the decade, and an unhandled array out of bounds exception was raised when the unexpected 33rd phone surprisingly got activated this morning.
The array has now been resized to 64 - 'good for the next couple of decades', as the source put it. When asked why the sizing wasn't dynamic, the source quipped that the rest of Microsoft 'has been static for years so why should Microsoft arrays be any different?'
However...
There also huge numbers of dedicated IT professionals that have spent their collective-years working "under the hood", of the actual technologies. And therefore, who have had to repeatedly clean-up other people's, and company's messes. And, some of us have also spent many decades watching, and dealing with the, mediocre, and usually unethical, or even illegal, actions of this particular company [Microsoft]. In short, previously -unbiased- IT-professionals have had to continually deal with the problems that Microsoft has unnecessarily created, and inflicted, upon consumers and businesses... time, and time, again.
So, I'd have to say that trying to off-handedly dismiss, and insult, such a huge number of highly-motivated, experienced, professionals as merely "emotionally anti-Microsoft", is simply an example of pedantic, and sad, fanboi-ism. Which most would agree, would be far worse if... "involved in any decision making processes".
Just an observation.
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