Nate Cull (.social)Sep 6, 2018

Fascinating gems in a Reddit thread on Microsoft's new QA process:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/9czvh0/what_is_microsoft_thinking/e5ep6hr/

via https://www.askwoody.com/2018/the-saga-of-microsoft-testing/

<<When it comes to SDE/SDET at microsoft, they basically make sure builds can be built, not that they meet quality assurance standards. >>

<< They test software for /build compliance/

They don't test for what they used to test for in their QA department. ...

Basically, they are making sure they can put out a loader that itself is not broken. Nothing more. >>

r/Windows10 - What is Microsoft thinking?

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@natecull Microsoft's S2D - the converged storage that's supposed to revolutionise the datacenter - has literally had a "totally drop all storage cluster-wide" bug since the May updates, I've been bitten by it several times and we had a premier support case open three months before they could be bothered warning people https://support.microsoft.com/en-hk/help/4462487/event-5120-with-status-io-timeout-c00000b5-after-an-s2d-node-restart-o
Sep 6, 2018 at 8:28amWeb