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The QA failure most shocking to me lately is that on 10.8.5 on their newest MacBook Airs, Apple forgot some file necessary to use the video camera in 32 bit mod
by kbd 13y ago
The QA failure most shocking to me lately is that on 10.8.5 on their newest MacBook Airs, Apple forgot some file necessary to use the video camera in 32 bit mode and therefore broke Skype.
Microsoft, for all their faults, is notorious for having fantastic QA and not breaking old apps when they update Windows, and would never have let that happen. You'd think when you update the camera that you'd check such a popular app as Skype.
Point is, it seems like the Mail team isn't the only place QA is lacking at Apple.
- mratzloff 13y ago> Microsoft, for all their faults, is notorious for having fantastic QA and not breaking old apps when they update Windows, and would never have let that happen. Windows 8.1 has had a number of severe problems.[1][2][3] [1] http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2013/10/21/win-rt-81-pulled/1 http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2013/10/21/win-rt-81-pulle... [2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/10/17/windows-8-1-upgrade-not-working-after-3-attempts-on-2-machines/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/10/17/windows-8-... [3] Anecdotally, a coworker tried upgrading on two separate devices (after Microsoft pulled 8.1 for awhile and then made it available again). On both it installed fine but disabled all of his Metro apps from starting.
- kbd 13y agoRelevant: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html See the parts about backwards compatibility. I'll grant that Microsoft isn't as fanatical about backwards compatibility as they used to be.