They fired all their SDETs ~2014, and the decline in quality since then has been very noticeable. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-sys

They fired all their SDETs ~2014, and the decline in quality since then has been very noticeable. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-systems-group-chief-myersons-memo-to-the-troops/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-sy... There's lots of criticism about how that role was structured, but putting devs in charge of their own code's quality is a recipe for poor quality software. It works on my machine doesn't work with a product like Windows.