Yes, that's a good point and I overstated. Microsoft needs a _few_ software engineers. Most of their developers won't be and shouldn't be, though. Conversely

Yes, that's a good point and I overstated. Microsoft needs a _few_ software engineers. Most of their developers won't be and shouldn't be, though. Conversely, NASA will have plenty of software systems that have nothing to do with spaceflight, like their website. They shouldn't be paying software engineers to engineer those systems, but rather software developers to build and maintain them.