At some point they gave up on quality control. Not sure why but things went downhill at Microsoft years ago already. With the rise of AI slop and Microsoft turning into microslop, this trend just became amplified.

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someguyiguess 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes. That point in time was long before AI. Remember Longhorn/Vista? Windows ME? Etc, etc…

	▲	nxc18 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They fired all of their SDET, eliminated the SDET role/discipline, and made SDEs responsible for quality and shipping their features, a major conflict of interest. This happened ~2014/2015. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-microsoft-doe...