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0 pointsmidoridensha2y ago0 comments

Why should Microsoft spend any money on maintaining a QA team and doing functional verification? What's the business benefit?

Leaving QA to a bunch of amateurs is a good thing: it saves MS lots of money, and so increases profitability, and increases shareholder value. Windows users aren't going to stop using Windows because of a bunch of bugs that a dedicated QA department would have caught, so there's no reason to avoid bugginess.

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anticensor2y ago

Remember that those bugs and antifeatures may also cause those very Microsoft shareholders and employees to lose data (and money and time). It is not like Microsoft shareholders are forbidden to use Microsoft products.

midoridenshaOP2y ago

I don't see the board of directors or other large shareholders complaining to Microsoft about their product quality.

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Why should Microsoft spend any money on maintaining a QA team and doing functional verification? What's the business benefit?

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anticensor2y ago

midoridenshaOP2y ago

I don't see the board of directors or other large shareholders complaining to Microsoft about their product quality.

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