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So for the "New Microsoft" releasing a bug fix for a "bug" affecting customers using Linux for more than 3 months it just required to be popular at Hacker News

by faragon 10y ago

So for the "New Microsoft" releasing a bug fix for a "bug" affecting customers using Linux for more than 3 months it just required to be popular at Hacker News and Reddit.

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alexval 10y ago
Sometimes at a large company feedback from support and those customer forms doesn't make it all the way back to the engineers. The engineers read hacker news. As soon as they saw this it makes sense that they fixed it. Seems like the pipeline for customer feedback could be improved.
- faragon 10y ago
  So engineers at "New Microsoft" read Hacker News, but don't use "New Microsoft" products on Linux.
  - pmilot 10y ago
    It may sound farfetched to you, but I assure you that some people who read Hacker News regularly don't actually use Linux on a day-to-day basis.
    - faragon 10y ago
      Sure. That was my point: the "New Microsoft" is not using Linux, or don't {care about | want} their customers using "New Microsoft" products on Linux.