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I am constantly amazed at the number of bugs and seemingly obvious UI issues pervasive throughout microsoft products. It feels like their product philosophy is
by cwkoss 6y ago
I am constantly amazed at the number of bugs and seemingly obvious UI issues pervasive throughout microsoft products. It feels like their product philosophy is "jack of all trades, master of none" - they try to support so many uses cases that there isn't a cohesive best practice anywhere.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI feel like this has only really been the case since about 2015, so instead of ascribing it to a "jack of all trades" philosophy I believe it can be more readily explained by a "lets hire a bunch of webdevs to work on our desktop OS" philosophy.
- tjalfi 6y agoThey laid off thousands of testers in 2014[0]. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that quality plummeted afterwards. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-microsoft-dragged-its-development-practices-into-the-21st-century/4/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...
- sabarn01 6y agoMost were moved to dev. The difference is Dev are responsible for writing tests now which was not true prior.