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I've recently switched to start working with Microsoft products, with both this and their Dynamics 365 platform. It really seems like there's a huge opportunity here for guys like me to bring years of experience hacking on UNIX systems into the Microsoft world because there's a lot of "this is how it's done" and legacy systems thinking.

Many of the developers I've seen working in this space seem a few years behind, so I'm excited to see this published here. Gives me faith that I'm making the right call (even if it is a bit painful to develop for these things. XML and all.)

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>"It really seems like there's a huge opportunity here for guys like me to bring years of experience hacking on UNIX systems into the Microsoft world because there's a lot of "this is how it's done" and legacy systems thinking."

I wish you luck, but do bear in mind that support considerations are very important in the business world, especially businesses where IT services are in a supporting role to the main business. With that in mind, I'd hazard a guess that XML is one of the least problematic parts of what you're working with.

> Many of the developers I've seen working in this space seem a few years behind

Could you be more specific what you're referring to here? As it is developing it seems to me like there is a very high chance of companies ending up with a tangled mess of things, but wondering if you're seeing different issues than me.

I'm curious too, what you mean here. Azure is cutting edge, HDinsight is world class. The stuff they are doing with R is great. Even Excel probably does a lot of things you don't realize, do you know it comes with a built-in in-memory columnar DB and a Facebook client now?

> Even Excel probably does a lot of things you don't realize, do you know it comes with a built-in in-memory columnar DB

...if you have the right Office tier.

Which Office tier doesn't come with the Power BI tools in Excel?

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