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As a former Microsoft employee, my experience was that the longer a product was around, the harder it was to figure out who understood any part of it well enoug
by latencyloser 9y ago
As a former Microsoft employee, my experience was that the longer a product was around, the harder it was to figure out who understood any part of it well enough to change something.
I would guess I averaged about 10 lines a month on my project that had been around for decades. Making even slight tweaks required dozens of meetings, design discussions, functional and performance testing, etc. etc. It took an eternity.
- patcheudor 9y agoMicrosoft is still actively patching Skype. Here's an example of them patching what sounds like a similar DLL flaw just last year: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6517/ https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6517/
- user5994461 9y agoAnd don't forget that the product work as expected in most cases and many changes are not justified. The bike shed won't get painted to a new color just because a the new middle manager asked for it.