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by someguyiguess 40 days ago
Yes. That point in time was long before AI. Remember Longhorn/Vista? Windows ME? Etc, etc…
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nxc18 40 days ago
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...

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