This is what happens when corporations become so large, their product so ubiquitous, and have so many customers that they don’t need to worry about actual quality or service.
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floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 days agoAs the article mentions, it’s because Microsoft cut down their quality control to the point where they’re just sending stuff out then reacting when people report what breaks. Sure they have their “insider” builds but that program isn’t working very well to catch these issues that find their way into release builds.
Back in the day they had a massive testing lab and a big team of testers. Then they fired them all about 10 years ago. We can thank Satya Nadella I guess. He’s more of a line-go-up man than a making stuff work guy.
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s what happens when big corporations decide that they can get away with having 30+% less staff, which most of the big companies are doing.
Plus lots of other efficiency killers, like RTO policies for teams that work 80% with people in other regions, etc.
jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah yes, the return of right-shifting
doctortofu@piefed.social 2 days ago
It's completely insane to me that businesses deal with it without suing their butts off. I can understand individual customers, they tend to be docile, but how did all this not cost massive losses to a litigious company yet?
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Enterprise lags behind Home and Pro. Consumers are QA for Enterprise.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
One lesson they took for RedHat, is it not?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
They’ve gotten away with it for 10 years now. I’m sure they’ll continue to get away with it.
innermachine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The fact of the matter is almost nobody really deals with these issues. I’m not saying they don’t exist, but their definatley blown out of proportion by the LINUX OR DIE echo chamber that forgets people have to use their work equipment or just want everything to work natively without having to learn bash and a hundred other things to make shit work. 75ish % of computers run windows, 2% use Linux. So an issue that effects a insignificant amount of windows users would be like half of the Linux base. I love Linux don’t get me wrong, and use it on my garage computer and other fun projects but my main gaming PC and my wife’s PC and all the computers at work all run windows for a reason. I doubt Linux has a good software to run a plasma table or a CNC mill, some stuff u just can’t do on Linux without investing more time than is worth.