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>These junior developers also have a tendency to make improvements to the system by implementing brand-new features instead of improving old ones. Look at recen
by vezycash 11y ago
>These junior developers also have a tendency to make improvements to the system by implementing brand-new features instead of improving old ones. Look at recent Microsoft releases: we don't fix old features, but accrete new ones. New features help much more at review time than improvements to old ones.
This is true. Windows 7 had an easy way to create adhoc wifi but win 8 removed it. So now I must either use command prompt or install connectify.
WP has too many examples:
Music app has been rewritten multiple times and rebranded almost as many times.
Email has also been rewritten and renamed - new version is slightly better.
The excellent lumia camera has been replaced by a meh windows camera app.
Internet explorer's been replaced by the featureless edge IMO.
Instead of fixing the Skype app (missed notifications, memory consumption issues, performance issues, calls ringing even if the target is OFFLINE, inaccurate notification count...) a bland messaging and Skype video apps were introduced. So we've got three apps for Skype on Windows 10 and windows mobile.
...and many more
- existencebox 11y agoThis statement is broadly true across bigCo industry from what I've found, but I'd assign an "obvious explanation" to why: New features are recognized for promos far more than existing improvements. I wouldn't say it's a new vs old dev thing other than that old devs need "broader impact" to justify promos and thus can't really take low hanging fruit, (although I've certainly seen senior devs ramp up significant projects just so they get "novel visibility" even if it's reinventing the wheel these tend to be slower by their very nature and often not as visible as the more top level feature bloat) it seems more to do with the culture of how career progress is measured throughout industry. (A culture that I personally think is extremely broken, but see very little to fixing outside of starting my own company)
- Apocryphon 11y ago"New features are recognized for promos far more than existing improvements." Seems like the solution is neither in engineering nor product, but marketing- companies need to get better at explaining when a low-new-features iteration is intended for stability and streamlining of existing features.
- spriggan3 11y agoDidn't they remove folder encryption from Windows 8 too ? I wasn't able to do it when in W7 it was a simple right click -> menu folder properties -> encrypt. They sure had that annoying Modern UI menu which is totally useless. What happened to window essentials ? I don't want to use outlook, that email client was enough and supporter RSS feed reading.
- cududa 11y agoI don't believe Windows ever had a feature to right click> Properties> encrypt. Perhaps you had an application installed that had an extension enabling that?
- wolfgke 11y ago> I don't believe Windows ever had a feature to right click> Properties> encrypt. Windows 7 Professional has it. Windows 7 Home doesn't have this feature.
- paulryanrogers 11y agoProfessional editions had this before BitLocker. Seems to be available again in v10. It didn't encrypt file names, only contents.
- teh_klev 11y agoMy Windows 10 Pro has it (as did Windows 7 Ultimate): http://imgur.com/FbWPLIg http://imgur.com/FbWPLIg Right-click -> Properties -> Advanced
- spriggan3 11y agoDidn't they remove folder encryption from Windows 8 too ? I wasn't able to do it when in W7 it was a simple right click -> menu folder properties -> encrypt. They sure had that annoying Modern UI menu which is totally useless. What happened to window essentials ? I don't want to use outlook, that email client was enough and supporter RSS feed reading.
- tamana 11y agoYou can't get promoted by claiming that your senior peers' work was flawed and you fixed it. The optics fail.