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I am constantly amazed at the number of bugs and seemingly obvious UI issues pervasive throughout microsoft products. It feels like their product philosophy is "jack of all trades, master of none" - they try to support so many uses cases that there isn't a cohesive best practice anywhere.

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I feel like this has only really been the case since about 2015, so instead of ascribing it to a "jack of all trades" philosophy I believe it can be more readily explained by a "lets hire a bunch of webdevs to work on our desktop OS" philosophy.

They laid off thousands of testers in 2014[0].

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that quality plummeted afterwards.

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

Most were moved to dev. The difference is Dev are responsible for writing tests now which was not true prior.

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