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I, too, rarely have major issues with Windows. However, I did come across the login issue in the article, which was fixed with a restart. When people shit all o
by sakopov 8y ago
I, too, rarely have major issues with Windows. However, I did come across the login issue in the article, which was fixed with a restart. When people shit all over WinOS I'd like to instead give Microsoft credit for creating an OS that works as good as it does on virtually endless amounts of hardware configurations.
- sddfd 8y agoAnd mostly without any technical user intervention.
- x0054 8y ago@sakopov: "When people shit all over WinOS I'd like to instead give Microsoft credit for creating an OS that works as good as it does on virtually endless amounts of hardware configurations." That might be true, but in this case the issue appears to be exclusively software related. If they didn't force system upgrades, honestly, I probably wouldn't care. It may very well be a Dell issue, but Microsoft is large enough and powerful enough to enforce some standards on their partners.
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- Zardoz84 8y agoWindows 7 was working better that Windows 10. And GNU/Linux works better that Windows 10 on a bigger set of machines.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoIt's stunning to me that Microsoft can do this but we tolerate excuses from other companies about why they can't guarantee all devices running their OS can get a given software update. Or that each manufacturer's update needs to be released separately. That being said, as someone who repairs Windows for a living, I've seen a lot of major issues with Windows. They take a two steps forward, one step back approach to everything they do. QA has gone down the toilet of late, but most of the core product is actually better.
- dabockster 8y agoI've heard a rumor going around that Microsoft has either downsized their QA engineers significantly or laid them off entirely in favor of having devs and sub/misclassified contractors do it instead. I hope I'm wrong, though.
- fmv_ 8y agoYou aren't wrong. Someone mentioned this to me Thursday right before my interview at MS. During my interview, testing came up so I asked about it. I was told there are no more QA engineers. Developers will now be handling testing/QA themselves.
- dabockster 8y agoSo the same guy that wrote the code is also testing it? Or are they having other team members test each other's code? Either way, I'm not surprised the quality is going down.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI think they are relying much more on Insiders Program testing as well, which is why bugs with enterprise features go unnoticed for a full year like the Edge issue with Software Restriction Policies: Very few businesses run Insider builds.