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Look at the way they're approaching Bash on Windows (which was also defended by shanselman in that thread). This is a brain dead, check-off-the-boxes compatibil
by tacos 10y ago
Look at the way they're approaching Bash on Windows (which was also defended by shanselman in that thread). This is a brain dead, check-off-the-boxes compatibility exercise. Instead they threw some half-baked crap on Github and said "Hey community, let us know what doesn't work!" They pulled the same nonsense with C99 support. I know it's dark and rainy and lonely in your office, but just do the work, m'kay?
Instead they got Redis limping on it and so decided to release everything as part of an extended tradeshow demo. But months later they realized that it can't handle files that end in a period -- after the community alerted them. This is an absurd way to approach building a critical compatibility layer. It's a waste of everyone's time.
But they're over-excited about community input now. They said they were listening with Windows 8, too -- and now Sinofsky's new career is writing LinkedIn articles all day, pretending he didn't drive a $100 billion ecosystem into the ground for three years. Likewise does the OneDrive team really need a UserVoice site to tell them the thing simply doesn't work? A terabyte an hour of error logs and telemetry isn't enough I guess.
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