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by richardwhiuk 2943 days ago
No company sweats the details. It's basically a massive money sink for no perceivable upside.

People used to think that Apple did, and now there's a post every four weeks about how bad Apple's QA is because there's a bug if you post an obscure character in a language used by < 1% of the world's population.

Google's customer support is famously useless, and Microsoft has a ton of bugs.

At some point someone will find a mythical company which cares about the little things that bother us, but that will probably happen shortly after the AI singularity shows up.

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> No company sweats the details.

Interesting. Do they do it to precisely the same level? As in, all software organizations, and all individual pieces of software, have the same levels of bugs and usability?

If that's the case, would it also be safe to presume that compared to Github remaining independent, under Microsoft they will (or will not, as the case may be) release the same new features, on the same timeline, with the same number of bugs, etc?