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Updated 13th October 2025
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Senior Business Analyst Ii
500M - 1B USD, IT ServicesFAVORABLE
“Seamless Collaboration Features Offset By Heavy Resource Usage With Large Projects”
My overall experience with this has been very good as it makes building and debugging applications much easier. The interface is intuitive and the built-in tools like Intellisense, debugging and refactoring significantly improve productivity. It performs well with large projects and supports a wide range of programming languages, which makes it suitable for different types of development work. The ability to customize the environment with extensions is another great advantage. However, it can feel quite heavy at times, particularly when opening large solutions or installing updates, and it requires a machine with decent performance to run smoothly.
IT MANAGER
250M - 500M USD, BankingCRITICAL
“Full features contrast with difficulties in Microsoft licensing.”
Microsoft's licensing process itself is quite complex, which creates insecurity during negotiations, giving the client the impression that something is never entirely clear. The process of forcing sales with a team that approaches clients conducting license audits is not, in my opinion, the best sales strategy. Even though it has yielded results, the level of satisfaction and distrust towards the supplier is high among colleagues who have been affected by this type of approach.
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Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.
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Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
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- Senior Business Analyst Ii50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Seamless Collaboration Features Offset By Heavy Resource Usage With Large Projects
My overall experience with this has been very good as it makes building and debugging applications much easier. The interface is intuitive and the built-in tools like Intellisense, debugging and refactoring significantly improve productivity. It performs well with large projects and supports a wide range of programming languages, which makes it suitable for different types of development work. The ability to customize the environment with extensions is another great advantage. However, it can feel quite heavy at times, particularly when opening large solutions or installing updates, and it requires a machine with decent performance to run smoothly. - IT ASSOCIATE<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
An incredibly powerful IDE that requires an equally powerful machine to run effectively
Visual Studio is a robust, feature-rich IDE that handles massive codebases better than almost anything else. However, the experience can feel sluggish compared to modern, lightweight editors. It is excellent for backend work and complex architecture, but I often find myself switching to lighter tools for frontend HTML/CSS edits because Visual Studio feels like overkill for small tasks. - Engineering Manager<50M USDManufacturingReview Source
A single, comprehensive IDE that improves productivity for small and big teams
We have been using IDEs for 5 years, and one of the main reasons we switched to Visual Studio is because we found we could do all our coding in a single platform, previously we wrote our backend and frontend in different IDEs. We were also surprised by the amount of lenguajes supported and the library of extensions in Visual Studio. - IT MANAGER50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Full features contrast with difficulties in Microsoft licensing.
Microsoft's licensing process itself is quite complex, which creates insecurity during negotiations, giving the client the impression that something is never entirely clear. The process of forcing sales with a team that approaches clients conducting license audits is not, in my opinion, the best sales strategy. Even though it has yielded results, the level of satisfaction and distrust towards the supplier is high among colleagues who have been affected by this type of approach. - Associate Consultant50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Windows-Focused Visual Studio IDE Excels in Debugging, Presents Compatibility Challenges
The Visual Studio IDE plays a critical role in our software development lifecycle. It is the primary tool we use for building our ASP.NET web apps and complex backend services. This is well suited for creating Windows-native applications using Windows Forms. This helps our developers to publish, manage and debug cloud-native apps directly on Microsoft Azure.
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