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Microsoft devs who were responsible for WinNT, Win32, IE3+ almost all retired by now. A huge brain drain. Win10 and all of their products since around 2011 are
by frik 10y ago
Microsoft devs who were responsible for WinNT, Win32, IE3+ almost all retired by now. A huge brain drain. Win10 and all of their products since around 2011 are such a mess and of rather lower quality than their older products, it's not even funny anymore. It would be good for them to learn from their past mistakes, like IE and ActiveDesktop had basically the same security problems - that was fixed with WinXP and IE6, now with Win10 and Edge they are back in WinME and IE 5.5 days.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoI thought the quality dive was coincident with abolishing their test teams? Didn't they do that? Made all engineers responsible for their own testing. Which is insane.
- imglorp 10y agoYeah good point. The timing does line up. http://www.networkworld.com/article/2453929/microsoft-subnet/would-microsoft-really-cut-its-qa-department.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2453929/microsoft-subnet...
- Senji 10y agoActiveDesktop was the bomb. You could embed a flash video stream which shows cats playing in a pen 24/7 365 cats on your desktop. And all your icons, still worked on top of it.