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That'd be easier if they hadn't got rid of all their QA people years ago.

• mostlysimilar 3y ago
  Did they really do this? How can they possibly justify that? Are their users so held hostage that broken software isn't enough to get them to leave?
  • moffkalast 3y ago
    Nah they just outsourced their QA department to the users, it's the modern thing to do.
    • midoridensha 3y ago
      It's the right thing to do, for Microsoft. Their users aren't going to leave them, no matter what, so why waste money on QA staff and testing? It's better for the company's profit margin to just let the users deal with those problems, and the users agree since they're happy to keep using MS products and paying for them.
  • wizzwizz4 3y ago
    Yes? People have been joking about Microsoft's buggy software for longer than some of my friends have been alive. Backwards-compatibility is a hell of a drug; combine it with "every time my computer changes, it's really hard to figure out how to use it, so I don't want to change OS", and it's unstoppable.
  • toast0 3y ago
    Yes, there was a reorg in 2014 where they eliminated the role of 'software developer in test', the justification was something something testing as a separate function is slowing us down and we want to put out more releases. Or something. Supposedly testing responsibilities didn't go away, they were just moved to the software developers, but my lived experience is quality went down, so I'm convinced that testing isn't happening as much. Certainly windows mobile 10 had much less polish than any windows phone >= 7.5 release. Of course, design changes I don't like can be hard to separate from some of the things I think QA would have found.