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I worked for Microsoft for 17 years, most of that in and around Windows.

I can tell you that you are wrong. Whatever the company’s flaws, the people in Windows care deeply about compatibility and about not breaking things with updates. I have hours of stories from the trenches, and could probably talk at length about how such a point of view would be suicidal for the Windows business.

I don’t know what went wrong here, and I’m not saying Microsoft is blameless. I am saying that whatever went wrong was NOT due to lack of caring about breaking things, even non-Microsoft stuff sharing the same computer.



I think there's a distinction between individuals caring and the corporate ("more than the sum" of individuals comprising it) caring.

In that sense, I don't see your experience as invalidating the statement "MS has zero vested interest in caring"?


Is that the same company whose CEO said Linux was a cancer?




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