I don't understand Microsoft. These guys solve the most mundane problems with most elegant solutions and with sound edge-case handling scenarios, then they destroy all the effort with subpar programming where it matters and with user hostile behavior where they can't botch it.
Different teams with different goals and different management
Not to mention the stack ranking policies that caused engineers to sabotage other people's work and avoid collaboration in order to keep themselves high on the stack in order to avoid being fired.
I get what you mean, but it's really hard for any organization this size to drive consistent quality across the board.
Yep..
And image files were, and continue to be, a huge exploit attack vector
However, I still remember Wine laughing at Windows for WMF exploit and end up being affected from the same exploit. Now, that was a good laugh.
Just like the rest of us.
Even if you work on exciting things, the project will always have boring parts.
You'll need to develop these parts as well, so be prepared and show the same respect to all parts.