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> It's interesting that the same company can produce both Teams, being pretty bad, and VS Code, being very good. Surely this demonstrates the wide variance you
by Quarrelsome 6y ago
> It's interesting that the same company can produce both Teams, being pretty bad, and VS Code, being very good.
Surely this demonstrates the wide variance you get with software and how important professional discipline is?
- LarvaFX 6y agoI would say it does.
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoI would like to agree here, but to emphasise "discipline" being an organisational not individual issue. Given that there are certainly competent emgineers at MSFT and most could carve out a week of coding without anyone noticing, what is missing is high level organisational insistence on good professional discipline - and it's so easy to just let that slip. For example a comment earlier mentioned the chat feature is broken but they rushed out video background changes. This of course is a response to zoom - and it's possible to argue it's a strategic necessity - but it suggest the top level product management is blowing around in internally company winds rather than user needs.
- Quarrelsome 6y ago> and it's possible to argue it's a strategic necessity I would argue its a strategic failure. Purely reacting to the competition is something that has led to countless Microsoft disappointments (e.g. Zune, Bing).
- jschwartzi 6y agoTeams is pretty crappy software but it works really well as an integrated chat system and it fits nicely in our organization.