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ole reliable "you came to a different conclusion than me so you must be uninformed". come on. this is not MS' core competency and it's a diversion of resources. i'm hearing about how azure has capacity problems but they're sinking dollars into this?

why not just let the autism research guys or whatever develop this stuff?

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>... it's a diversion of resources.

How do you know that resources were diverted? Are you suggesting that the same people responsible for Azure's capacity issues are the same people working on this? Because these are two wholly different things that require different subsets of skills.

>why not just let the autism research guys or whatever develop this stuff?

Why not just let the plumber fly the plane? Why not just let the cook captain the ship?

Autism researchers partner with people who can develop these tools. That's what's happening here.

Do you really think that the designers and frontend engineers working on this would have been put to better use working on capacity issues?

If this makes more money than it cost, then what does it matter?

opportunity cost? question is why they have the staff for this kindve thing and not for azure or other productive stuff.

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