Are you really claiming user management isn’t as important from a business perspective?
Everyone using local accounts is a nightmare to manage if you have more than 5 computers. No self-respecting IT department would want to put up with that.
And you also seem to have no understanding of the sheer amount of functionality AD offers.
Hardly. It’s incredibly important, especially at such scale. But while AD scales well for a business, it does not scale in a way that makes sense for everything being sold as a service online. Even with Azure, there are other options that are frequently more practical.
Are you really claiming user management isn’t as important from a business perspective?
Everyone using local accounts is a nightmare to manage if you have more than 5 computers. No self-respecting IT department would want to put up with that.
And you also seem to have no understanding of the sheer amount of functionality AD offers.
Hardly. It’s incredibly important, especially at such scale. But while AD scales well for a business, it does not scale in a way that makes sense for everything being sold as a service online. Even with Azure, there are other options that are frequently more practical.