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> Say what you will about Microsoft but in my several years of using Windows I rarely had these type of glaring issues even with the awful amount of hardware it
by city41 15y ago
> Say what you will about Microsoft but in my several years of using Windows I rarely had these type of glaring issues even with the awful amount of hardware it supports.
I'm an ex-MS employee. One thing that really impressed me about my team at MS is the depth and quality of testing that was done. Unit tests, integration, fuzz, load, UI, regression, etc. All done in extreme depth, extremely efficiently, and across every supported SKU (and when you consider every possible OS, culture and .NET combinations out there, that's a lot)
- zmmmmm 15y agoI always thought that an interesting thing about Vista was that although it was widely seen as a horrible failure it wasn't actually highly buggy. It had horrible problems with performance and hardware compatibility, but the software itself didn't seem to contain glaring issues - at least if you calibrated your expectations to the perception of its quality by the market and end users. On the other hand, Apple always nails the user experience - a release like Vista just wouldn't get out the door. But they let other horrendous quality problems through that would and should be caught by better process. So it sort of illustrates two fairly orthogonal axes of quality and how different companies excel in different directions along those axes.