Microsoft builds the bomb

Metadata

• Author: Benn Stancil
• Full Title: Microsoft builds the bomb
• URL: https://benn.substack.com/p/microsoft-builds-the-bomb

Highlights

• The modern data stack has never had a platform. There’s never been an operating system on which everything could sit. There’s no central service that handles user identity and authentication, or data connectivity, or access management, or content organization.3 When people have new ideas for improving how we all work with data, there’s no central platform to plug the technology into. (View Highlight)
• Ultimately, however, the most notable thing about Fabric isn’t its features, but—as its name implies—the knitting between them. Fabric isn’t a suite of loosely connected services; it’s a single application that has one login experience, one user interface, one storage layer, one permission model, and one monthly bill.6 Whereas each feature has a counterpart elsewhere, this connectivity is unique. (View Highlight)
• Ultimately, however, the most notable thing about Fabric isn’t its features, but—as its name implies—the knitting between them. Fabric isn’t a suite of loosely connected services; it’s a single application that has one login experience, one user interface, one storage layer, one permission model, and one monthly bill.6 Whereas each feature has a counterpart elsewhere, this connectivity is unique. (View Highlight)
• Ultimately, however, the most notable thing about Fabric isn’t its features, but—as its name implies—the knitting between them. Fabric isn’t a suite of loosely connected services; it’s a single application that has one login experience, one user interface, one storage layer, one permission model, and one monthly bill.6 Whereas each feature has a counterpart elsewhere, this connectivity is unique. (View Highlight)
• Ultimately, however, the most notable thing about Fabric isn’t its features, but—as its name implies—the knitting between them. Fabric isn’t a suite of loosely connected services; it’s a single application that has one login experience, one user interface, one storage layer, one permission model, and one monthly bill.6 Whereas each feature has a counterpart elsewhere, this connectivity is unique. (View Highlight)