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Ask HN: Has Microsoft forgotten how to test software?

2•pudgywalsh•25m ago
This is a serious question.

I've an older Mac with some critical apps that runs a slightly obsolete macOS. This OS version is no longer supported by Edge and Chrome 151+.

This did not stop Edge from auto-updating to a known incompatible version and bricking itself.

One minute I had the browser open; the next, the icon was overlayed with the Ghostbusters symbol and could do nothing but display a dialog explaining that my OS is unsupported.

A fluke once perhaps, but this is the third time this has happened to me with various MS apps bricking themselves.

I'm officially done with Microsoft products. This isn't some annoying bug; this is suddenly and abruptly locking me out of my own computer.

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d3Xt3r•12m ago
> Has Microsoft forgotten how to test software?

Well, yeah. Not sure how you missed the news but it was back in something like 2015 when they got rid of all their SDET roles (Software Development Engineer in Test). Since then, the quality of their products have been steadily declining. And recently it's become even worse with the introduction of AI-generated code.

ThrowawayB7•4m ago
This is a serious answer: Microsoft dissolved its test discipline in 2014, early in Nadella's reign, in favor of developer-led testing and telemetry based bug detection. The results you can judge for yourself.

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