Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter

Microsoft is teasing a Windows App that provides a home screen for users of its cloud and remote PC services. The Windows App – intended for web browsers, macOS, and iOS devices – is Microsoft's latest effort to tie up its disparate services into a unified home screen. In this case, a single pane where a user can access …

[Nick Ryan]

Great. So this is the fiftieth attempt at some nonsense unification application to turn everything separate into one thing.

We already have this. It's called a bloody Operating System where we can pick and choose the appropriate and available tool for what we want to do and use our choice (rapidly diminishing) of web browser to access whatever hosted services we want to.

It's Microsoft Bob level stupidity all over again, just a different generation or marketing-tards.

Unfortunately the hosted services are often different to what we want, or only hosted when we'd rather have actual control.

[Khaptain]

And don't forget , that like Azure, the interfaces will change on a weekly basis ensuring that you will never master control of anything.

[Nick Ryan]

Yep, keeping vaguely up to date with whatever nonsense happens in the land of Microsoft's PowerShell commands is all about that...

January: Here's the new revision of the PowerShell library you now need to use. It's 50/50 as to whether or not it's entirely compatible with the previous version, sometimes just doing a search/replace on the command names is all that is required (why inflict this?) other times more disruptive changes have been applied.

September: We've deprecated this new PowerShell library and now you need to use Microsoft Graph instead. By the way, not all the functionality that was in the previous PowerShell libraries are in this new version yet.

October: We've updated that Microsoft Graph and it is now no longer available, use this new Microsoft Graph interface instead. Some functionality has been moved into one library, some into another library. Some has just disappeared entirely. Also we still haven't bothered to update the documentation and command have a 50/50 chance of either being auto-doc generated nonsense or referring to a different command entirely...

...and then if continues the same the following year.

[Khaptain]

Even as we speak just saw this on our tenant today.

"Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID."

[An_Old_Dog]

Integration is Not ...

... throwing a raw fish, an electric toaster, and a sheet of paper into a bucket and then calling it "integrated."

[s. pam]

A tool so we can do all our snooping

Yet Another MSFT epic fail, nothing more nothing to buy or see here...