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by varispeed 244 days ago
Has Microsoft switched to vibe coding? Seems like the last series of blunders coincide with Coidiot rollout.
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They got rid of most QA people, and nowadays apparently devs do QA as well, except that apparently not much of it, like in large majority of companies, where testing and docs come last.

Then there is the whole AI KPIs that most companies are pushing on their employees, and given CoPilot, they surely must be pushing a lot.

It's worth noting that QA change happened >10 years ago now. It's really the shift in focus that accelerated things recently.
Kind of, it has been slowly felt during Windows 10 and 11 time, especially in anything related to UWP and WinRT.
Closed tickets look better on KPI than re-opened ones
Switched? The Windows Insider has 3 different tiers for testers: Dev, Beta and Release preview and still update rollouts are an example of how not to do it
It's not like their customers have a choice. If software you depend on only works on Windows you can't just say I'm done with this circus, where is my Ubuntu stick. Seems like a massive gap for regulators to close as some might say Microsoft is abusing their privileged position. Though I wouldn't hold my hopes up. Given how they have penetrated many governments with their services and software, they might thread carefully before getting Microsoft to act decent (see inaction over sentencing millions of PCs to landfill - at odds with many countries environment policies, but most politicians keep their head in the sand).
eating their own dogfood