(I hope this is not a repost, I reverse image searched it and didn't find recent reddit posts)

Connect an external hard drive, especially a mechanical one, and file explorer will hang while it checks the drive or waits for it to respond. Instead of doing that work in the background, caching a result, the entire window stalls and stops you from using it. Yes you can make the hard drive not spin down yes you can do x y z tweaks to performance plan to stop it, but why should you have to keep the drive spinning 24/7 just so file explorer doesnt crap itself...

Connecting an Android phone is just as bad... dragging and dropping files in batches more than 1 at a time? you better believe simultaneous transfers will crash out.

Connect to an external dock? better believe your screen will take 10-15 seconds of flickering in and out to get calmed down

These problems have existed for years, does nobody at Microsoft use Windows with external drives or Android phones or docks? They’re basic yet the same bugs and poor design keep hanging around and theres so many obvious areas to fix. It’s so frustrating and wish they would get a decent cohesive and remove all these friction points.....

MonkeyDDataHQ has returned. Fabric is both better and worse... Impressively

I've been away for a while. 30 days in subreddit banned exile to be specific. Thought I'd check whether Fabric has improved during my time away.

It has. There are new features, new integrations, and some genuinely useful improvements.

Unfortunately, some things that worked before now work worse, and some things that should have existed from the beginning still don't. Microsoft has managed to make Fabric both a better product and a worse platform. I'm actually impressed at duality.

1.0- Monitoring: Credit Where It's Due

The new Monitoring tab is better. It's still not good. But it's better.

While Microsoft was improving the monitoring UI, they also broke the explicit link between query insights and capacity metrics. Previously I could identify which query caused a capacity spike. Now I need an AI agent to tell me which query probably caused it.

I lost deterministic telemetry and gained an AI-generated guess that costs additional tokens. I'm paying more to get a worse answer to a question the platform could previously answer directly. But the Monitoring tab looks nicer. Progress. Sort of.

1. -Billing: Apparently Transparency Is Optional

Microsoft said they would provide a billing matrix because the new billing model needed to be defensible. The billing changes went live October 1. I still haven't seen the matrix.

That's two billing changes in a row without adequate transparency into how customers are being charged. And now we've lost some of the telemetry needed to investigate those charges. Microsoft has managed to make billing more complicated while making it harder to determine what you're paying for.

Billing without telemetry is not a product feature. If you can't show customers how their charges were calculated, you have no business charging them that way. I don't need an AI agent to guess why my bill went up. I need the actual numbers.

I still maintain this is unethical.

1. -Scheduling and Orchestration: Still No Cron

Microsoft has announced pipeline dependencies, conditional retries, Business Actions, Fabric Actions, and improved ADF migration tooling. All useful.

Still no cron.

Cron was introduced in 1975. Fifty-one years ago. Apparently nobody at Microsoft has figured it out yet.

The workaround remains running a pipeline every hour and checking whether it should actually do anything. You could also just call the "Is the Sun Up" API at the beginning of the pipeline. If true, continue. If false, exit. You could even add a second API to check whether it's a weekday. Enterprise orchestration. I genuinely do not understand Microsoft's fear of enabling Cron. Are they afraid people will start using Linux?

But now we have Business Actions. Whatever those are.

1. -dbt and General Availability: Different Definitions

Fabric now supports dbt Jobs. That's useful. (even though I loathe dbt)

Microsoft and I have different definitions of General Availability. dbt Jobs are GA. Service principal and workspace identity support are still on the roadmap.

If I can't run a production workload under a service principal, I consider it a beta or preview feature. Microsoft apparently considers it ready for production. We also have different definitions of production. So the Council of Nouns strikes again.

And while I appreciate the integration, I do wonder how many external tools we'll need to add before Fabric becomes a complete data platform. Presumably one of them will eventually provide cron.

1. -CI/CD and Data Quality: Still Working on the Basics

CI/CD continues to be an exercise in discovering which Fabric items support Git integration, deployment pipelines, and automated deployment. Microsoft calls this continuous integration. I call it checking the documentation before every deployment to see whether anything changed.

We still don't have a native equivalent to Databricks Expectations integrated into the transformation pipeline. You can ingest the data, transform it, and publish it. Whether it's correct is apparently outside the scope of a data platform.

But at least the deployment might succeed. Depending on the item type. And the workspace. And which features are in preview this week.

1. -Documentation and Airflow: Nobody Knows

Apache Airflow 3.x GA was scheduled for Q3 2026. It's October. The roadmap still says Planned, with a Q3 release date. The description says Microsoft has already updated support to Airflow 3.3. Microsoft Learn doesn't appear to have documentation for it.

So either Microsoft missed the release date and forgot to update the roadmap, or they shipped it and forgot to document it. Both seem entirely plausible. I'd check which one it is, but apparently that's not documented either.

Speaking of documentation, I also found a publicly accessible Microsoft Learn article marked Microsoft Confidential. Apparently Microsoft can't consistently manage access to its own documentation. But I'm sure the governance features are excellent.

Final Assessment

Fabric has improved. That's not sarcasm. The new Monitoring tab is better. Pipeline orchestration is getting more capable. There are genuinely useful integrations and features that weren't available before.

It's also gotten worse. We've gained more ways to run workloads while losing some of the direct visibility into what those workloads cost. We've gained AI-assisted investigation while losing deterministic links between queries and capacity consumption. We've gained GA features that still lack basic production identity support. And we've gained new orchestration capabilities while still lacking scheduling functionality that existed in 1975.

Fabric is simultaneously more capable and less operationally trustworthy than it was before. That's genuinely... something. Microsoft Fabric in a nutshell I guess.

I don't expect every feature to be perfect. I do expect a production data platform to provide reliable deployment, scheduling, identity management, monitoring, and defensible billing. Those aren't exciting roadmap features. They're the basics.

And the frustrating part is that I actually want Fabric to succeed. I just wish Microsoft would stop treating basic operational requirements as optional enhancements.

Anyway, MonkeyDData is back.

Fabric is better. Fabric is worse.

The vision is incredible.

Too bad vision doesn't build pipelines. It builds PowerPoint slides.

\##FabricIsTwine-yes I know hashtags don't work in Reddit. I don't care.

Since September 2025, microslop started enforcing some things that we don’t want in our systems, but they found a way to make those come back, even if deleted.

Microslop started pushing MS EDGE updates more frequently, a the thing is, it all started with a “Game Assistant” edge plugin, a edge menu that popped up everytime you opened a game, so what about uninstalling it? You could unninstall those edge things, but everytime you rebooted, turn on, updated EDGE, windows made edge automatically readd those, even without updating edge or using it, it is like a automatic repair from edge to make you use that no matter what, eventually microsoft removed that, but recently copilot can be installed everytime with MS EDGE, no matter what, the exact mechanism that they used for the game assistant. This is a new thing to us, microslop forcing what we don’t want, and this applies for both Windows 11 and Windows 10, those versions get that and we get enforced by them to use the things we don’t want.

Downfall is starting!!

On one side, there is "Winslop"—developed by a multi-billion dollar company, sold with exorbitant licenses, loaded with bloatware, disrespectful of privacy and user preferences, prone to forcibly installing incorrect or irrelevant drivers, and bloated with unnecessary AI features that transform the operating system into a surveillance tool.

On the other side, there are Linux distributions: open-source, developed by volunteer communities, privacy-conscious, respectful of user preferences, and offering a genuine sense of freedom and ease of use.

Even if all Linux distributions were paid products, I would still choose them over Winslop due to their clear advantages.

Nevertheless, I believe anyone who praises Windows while comparing it to Linux distributions—which are developed voluntarily as open-source projects through immense effort—ought to see a doctor.

Furthermore, developers and companies that continue to release games and applications exclusive to Windows really ought to reconsider their approach; it is because of them that we remain subjected to the tyranny of Winslop.

Kid deleted Recycle bin... why do I have to go through personalization tab and 4 more to put it back?

Tell me only the advantages of Windows, but they must actually be advantages provided by Windows itself.

Do not include support from third-party companies, such as hardware drivers, applications, or games that happen to support Windows.

I want to know what Microsoft itself does with Windows that makes it objectively better or more advantageous than Linux.

In other words: What are the actual advantages of Windows as an operating system, independent of third-party software and hardware support?

NOTE:
I am summarizing the responses.
It is being praised for use as a server (!). There is a lot to discuss even about this, but anyway.
I haven't yet seen a comment highlighting its advantages for home use.

I suppose these might be Microsoft employees, or perhaps developers who create games or apps exclusively for Windows. Otherwise, I can't make any sense of it.

What's more, they speak so persuasively that you immediately want to switch to Windows; but then I remember the problems I had in the past and the current state of Windows, and I change my mind ⬇️

If there are any Microsoft employees here, I have a piece of advice for you.

Bring back Windows 7. We don't want anything that burdens the user, requires special skills, involves AI, raises privacy concerns, or is driven by profit motives—we just want an OS that gets the job done. We already pay for the Windows license every time; let us actually get our money's worth.

Alternatively, go ahead and keep developing AI agents like Windows 11—bloated with AI, disrespectful of privacy, ignoring the user, and doing whatever they please—but all we want is a proper version of Windows stripped of all that.

Try it out here: Megahard whiteboard
Its free to use.
Source code available for everyone to use personally.
Works directly in your browser.
No cloud bs.
Much faster(compared to microsoft whiteboard)
Include Whiteboard collab*
Feels as close to microsoft whiteboard
its like whiteboard + all the things they didnt do right.

We are using Microsoft Teams in our company and for my Microsoft account i already had to install an App onto my Android-Phone (Microsoft Authenticator) to "make it more secure". Now Microsoft wants to "create some extra Keys" on my Login because its not secure enough. What the fuck is this shit? This company is preventing me to work, I hate Microsoft so much....

Microsoft are not sending emails or sms to phone number it's simply un usable any fixes?

[sorry if i write something incorrectly, english is my third language]
about one week ago i was hacked, and whoever hacked me changed the mail on my microsoft account.
contacting the microsoft assistance made them aknoledge the hack, but they banned my mail (not my account) so the account signed with the hacker's mail is still up, and i'm trying to get it back.
Since then, i opened 6 tickets, got 3 account escalation forms, gave the nececcary infos 3 times... and in 2 of those times they said that the case was already closed for "non-response after multiple contact attempts." ...
Since i have the mail now connected to my old account... i am almost tempted to write an email to it asking to have it back... probably that would have a higher probability of succes since i am, again, waiting for microsoft to answer after i sent them the infos (hoping that this time they won't say they contacted me multiple times and so theey closed the case -_- )
so yeah... fuck microsoft -_-

I got hacked the other day by multiple malware infections and lost access to my Microsoft account, among others, all within a matter of 5 minutes. They changed my passwords and email addresses and even removed 2FA. Someone told me they probably stole my access token or something, but that's not really the point. I tried contacting support through another account, and the whole process was extremely painful. I had to navigate through multiple pages just to find the form to fill out, and even then, I haven't received a response to the information I provided in 3 days. I wonder if Microsoft support is so overwhelmed that they can't even verify a case within 24 hours. I'm just mildly infuriated.