Windows quality control — the old-fashioned way

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Mary Jo Foley just ran this video on this week’s TWiT Windows Weekly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDqODDYR4Xk Recognize anybody in the video?
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abbodi86, Lars220, Nibbled To Death By Ducks

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Three quotes come to mind:

“O, how the mighty have fallen!” -Ye Goode Booke

“”My name is Ozymandias…(MSFT?); looks upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!” -Shelley

“Let’s see….where can we save some money…Oh, look, how about the QC/QA Department!”

-HR@MSFT

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“You can have it good; you can have it fast; you can have it cheap – pick any two.” – Red Adair.

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Thanks for the source…I spent some years in QC/QA; we hung the following sign up in the inspection area…when the Manager came around, it’d make him froth and spit sparks:

After I learned that “No-one loves a cop”, I moved on… 🙂 And no, I don’t recognize a soul in that video.

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Cybertooth

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I can’t say that I recognize any individual.  But I do recognize the album cover from Gary Hoey’s Bug Alley at 3:36.

 

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woody

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Where have you gone, Windows Two-thousand?

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Woo woo woo.

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Cybertooth

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I would love to see a video on how it is done in 2018. Judging from what I see and hear in the last 5 years or so, the drive to quality left the building.

I’ll bet not a single one of the people in that video are Microsoft employees any longer.

CT

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Lars220

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I doubt MS does with W10 as the testing teaming is the Home users.

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Where can I get a copy of Windows 2000?  More than interesting!  Send a copy to Mr Nadella with this advice – “Proper Planning Prevents P**s Poor Performance”  aka Windows 10 and Windows as a service.  Not forgetting Windows 10 udating TORTURE.

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Great “poke” to the memory! Didn’t recognize anyone, though I did recognize some of the hardware.  I remember how excited I was to upgrade from my 300 baud modem to one of those ‘blindingly fast’ Hayes 1200 baud modems.. 😉

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MrJimPhelps, woody

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I stepped my 1200 baud modem down to 300 baud once, just to see what it was like. About two characters per second appeared on my screen!

1200 was usable, but boy how I wanted a 2400 baud modem!

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SueW

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Days of yore’ – Ah, the good old days. I noticed the comments had been disabled for that video, probably related to too many swear words concerning todays quality, er, lack thereof.

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Easy to put rose-coloured glasses on about all this….. but don’t ever forget Windows 2000 was an absolute sieve as far as security was concerned — so for all the testing they were doing, they sure missed a lot of basics in terms of protecting from remote attacks, local privilege escalation, and so on.  They didn’t even -start- to really address the mess they’d created with Windows 2000 for another three years…..

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Heck, I do that every day as an unpaid beta tester.

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This video reminds me of when Microsoft realized Windows was its bread and butter. Now it seems the new leadership has its head all in the clouds. Like Windows is simply a secondary importance to the future of Microsoft.

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I’ll bet not a single one of the people in that video are Microsoft employees any longer.

I think you are right. All of those people in that video have left Microsoft and are in other tech companies now. This shows how much MS cares rather does not care about these issues.

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More importantly, what it says is that most if not all the creativity, innovation and responsible talent has left Microsoft. The result is the lights are on, lots of activity, but nothing worthwhile will result. The people remaining are the ones that did not get those big offers because of their talent or ability.

CT

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If you look at the Microsoft board of directors, only Gates and Nadella have been with Microsoft for any length of time, and only those two have actually worked “in the trenches” as opposed to simply being on the board of directors. Most of the other directors appear to have no background whatsoever in IT.

Gates was chairman till 2014, which is about the time that Microsoft went in a new direction. (Windows 10 was released in 2015.)

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Canadian Tech

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Most of the other directors appear to have no background whatsoever in IT.

This explains why Windows 10 is the worse OS ever.

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That may or may not be the case and is debateable (WinME?) MS must be doing something right, as per this article on the BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46365239

Windows - commercial by definition and now function...

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My father used to say the model A Ford was the best car made. I prefer the latest model off the production line every time, even if I don’t use all of the inbuilt functions and cannot service the car myself (as I could in the old days). Later models are far safer on the highway. I now find myself looking forward to self-drive models.

Windows 3, anyone?

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