This is an admission that they probably never gave a damn about your bug reports. But hey: if you'd like to help this multibillion dollar company to triage their bugs and re-file an updated issue they would appreciate it.
This is an admission that they probably never gave a damn about your bug reports. But hey: if you'd like to help this multibillion dollar company to triage their bugs and re-file an updated issue they would appreciate it.
In reality, it's not that easy. There have been times where, in projects that I have been involved, I wanted to fix a certain issue but the time required to setup, reproduce, investigate, fix and test against that and other versions, just adds up to a point where you cannot focus on the other equally important (new development) tasks at hand. So overtime, issues which might look easy to fix or interesting, do get piled up.
And that's not the case again. I already provided all information to reproduce that bug easily.
PS "bugs", actually. They've closed several bugs that I reported, though notified me about one only.
What means that somebody got them into the unmanageable state, in the first place.
There are active bug reports and feature suggestions for SQL Server that are more than a decade old.