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by theparanoid 3421 days ago
Microsoft used to have the best practices and...they were mostly as good as Google. Everything old is new again.
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As someone who worked at both companies for a long time, I assure you that Google's best practices (circa when I switched) were a generation ahead of Microsoft's. Mostly due to MSFT having much longer software release cycles, a more primitive, Windows-based internal cloud, many legacy build systems, less inter-group trust, and little company-wide desire to improve things.