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by rbanffy 5205 days ago
> they make buggy software on purpose

Actually, they do. Microsoft could spend more time and resources debugging it, or limit the number of use cases it addresses, make it simpler, support less hardware...

Obviously, they chose more functionality for the end user, a broader selection of supported hardware and shorter time to market. That comes with a price.

It's always a compromise. "Done is better than perfect"

And, to be fair, it could also be a hardware problem. You know, hardware has bugs too.

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The difference is between "creating bugs" and "accepting bugs". Shipping buggy code is different than creating buggy code on purpose.
All the bugs in my code are there because I wrote them. Of course, I didn't mean to, but, nevertheless, it's not like they appeared spontaneously.