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Comment by _jcwu | Hacker News Reader

It's pretty simple. Because there isn't a QA. Microsoft laid them off and uses the "Insiders" as beta testers. But they reported this issue but Microsoft ignored it because it didn't get enough votes.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1048473218917...

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They must have been storing the vote database in C:\Users\Documents

Wow... This is not acceptable at all. They should have a team to go through these and at least prioritise the tickets instead of just relying on upvote. I'm pretty sure Microsoft can afford that.

That is literally the last paragraph of the article.

I don’t believe it is. The parent said MS should have a team that manually sifts through raised bugs and sets severity. From the article it appears that MS is instead adding the ability for the bug reporters to set the severity. That’s definitely not as good a solution because everyone thinks their issue is the most severe.

I’ve read this comment about MS getting rid of their QA in a lot of places. Is that something they actually really did or is it something that people say because their QA quality has dropped significantly (which as in Apple’s case could be due to the increased release cadence).

To quote the citations I used in another comment about this...

[1] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140806183208-12100070-why-d...

[2] - https://www.computerworld.com/article/2878026/microsoft-to-b...

[3] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...

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