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Have you any idea how difficult it is to revert something like that? It doesn't sound like a trivial Cmd + Z to me. It sounds like a lot of work with limited up

Have you any idea how difficult it is to revert something like that? It doesn't sound like a trivial Cmd + Z to me. It sounds like a lot of work with limited upside for the team that implemented it. Nobody likes undoing their own work... Anyway, I'm not saying it wasn't a dick move by Microsoft. I just don't think it's representative of their entire company.

pbarnes_1 10y ago
It's pretty trivial: turn off the push messaging that makes it auto-update. The forced updates definitely got CEO approval. No question.
- lagadu 10y ago
  I suspect you're wildly overestimating how much direct involvement the CEO of a medium or large company has on product development. Obviously this can depend strongly on each company's culture (Apple is one of the most extreme examples of CEO involvement) but very often CEOs are glorified managers, involved mostly in dealing with the strategic side of things, and that kind of decisions only reach the head of R&D or CTO at most. This has been my experience from working in medium and large companies for the past decade at least.