Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Shirasho@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do NOT blame the devs for this. They are not the ones to decide the direction of the product or the priority of the tickets they work. Blame upper management for making these poor decisions and the product managers for being spineless and not pushing back.

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But Steve Ballmer told me “Developers Developers Developers Developers”

    Are you saying that was a lie?

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He also squealed IIRC

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Does anyone else wonder which medication Steve Ballmer was prescribed but didn’t take? He always struck me as a walking check engine light.

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  • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they are pushing back, which is why Control Panel still exists?

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Meanwhile the new settings panel is telling me my network is peivate while control panel and network share settings tell me it’s domain authenticated.

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      • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        …while you’re sitting in an internet café

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure everybody knows it’s not just a couple of developers by themselves churning out windows. Even the project managers are just following orders. Marketing sets the tone upper management picks the path.

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah . . . marketing – the department famous for being able to steer the flagship product of a trillion-dollar company.

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      • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He said marketing sets the tone (not the path), and that is absolutely true. Many products are killed or poorly received due to the tone poor marketing set.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, blaming the devs seems to be a recurring problem. I remember seeing this in a YouTube comment thread (paraphrased):

    why can’t i insert a bible reference without it becoming blue? i write proverbs 14:23 and youtube turns it into a damn timestamp. f-cking lazy developers, they removed dislikes, now keep preventing adblock and cannot detect a simple quote??

    I replied with something like:

    Hey, stop blaming the devs. It was not their decision to make the unpopular changes, and making a system for detecting if a comment is referring to a book with chapter:verse syntax (not just the bible, and all their versions & translations) is not something they would pay for. For the record, you can refer to Proverbs 14:​23 or any other verse without making it a link. I can show you how but first repent and apologize to undervaluing people’s hard work.

    (Yes, it’s a ZWSP after the colon.) He did not answer but maybe didn’t see my reply buried way underneath – it was YouTube comments, after all. Legend says that bible references in his video description keep messing up his worship chapters.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The devs are the people who, after seeing everything that Microsoft’s done for the past 30+ years, decided to take a job there anyway.

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    • ABasilPlant@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not a very valid argument.

      First and foremost, most devs probably see it as a job and they do what they’re told. They don’t have the power to refute decisions coming from above.

      Second, in this economy where jobs are scarer than a needle in multiple haystacks, people are desperate to get a job.

      Third, yes, there may be some Microsoft (M$) fan-people who end up being devs at M$. Sure, they may willingly implement the things upper management may request. However, I’m not sure whether that’s true for most of the people who work at M$.

      Your comment suggests to shift the blame to the devs who implement the features that upper management request for. Don’t shoot the (MSN) messenger.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You overestimate the agency of a developer.

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