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Microsoft has ~ 150,000 employees. I'm not sure why it's interesting that some of those employees put out a subjectively different quality product than others.

• pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Most corporations are systems which create products, those systems have QC, feedback loops, etc., that tend to provide homogeneity of quality? That's how brands are supposed to work, "I've had other things from this company, they were good, I'll get more". Companies are usually designed to prevent single shitty employees from ruining things (and usually to prevent goods being "too good" as well!). I've heard that MS is structured as highly separated departments, like separate single-product companies. Which goes someway to explain things - if they're bad at sharing best practice and senior management can't/won't control quality. Personally, this seems highly interesting.
  • jdsully 7y ago
    Microsoft had a great system until the mid 2010s. Testers did an amazing job preventing crap from making it to customers. Developers simply don't make good testers. Unfortunately they decided to follow everyone else and destroy this along with replacing offices for open space.
    • beart 7y ago
      Does this include things like Windows ME? Testers didn't do such an amazing job on that one.
      • jdsully 7y ago
        My take on the windows ME fiasco was the company's primary interest had shifted to getting NT (Windows 2000 later XP) ready and ME was a stopgap.