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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by herbst on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:51AM (#11387866)
This is hilarious.

I especially loved the part where he explains that Metro was/is designed in PowerPoint. I did not expect that, but it makes perfectly sense now.

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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by RubyPinch on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:14AM (#11388671)
Microsoft's office tooling isn't too bad for doing design work actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZp7BvQJnU8

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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by herbst on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:31AM (#11388738)
I am surprised. Its clearly better than paint.
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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by _Understated_ on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:55AM (#11387894)
The most frightening part for me (if this is indeed real) is that they have no testers.

TBH the lack of testers shows: I used Windows 8.1 since it came out and apart from minor issues at the start (Start 8 is a godsend!), I never once had a BSOD... Win 10 gave me 3 in 3 months so I removed it.

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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by mindcrash on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:10PM (#11392052)
They have technical testers, SDETs (or Software Development Engineer in Test) in Microsoft slang.

UX testers on the other hand... not so sure.

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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by gcp on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:28AM (#11388038)
Doesn't sound unusual for large projects with a long history that had deadlines to meet and a ton of actual users.
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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by osullivj on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:17AM (#11387990)
Sounds like mid 90s style C++ MFC GUI dev with widget IDs in the .h needing to line up with the .rc and all refs in the .cpp.
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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by analognoise on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:16AM (#11387981)
It can't be that bad...can it? Now I wish I could see the source.
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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by LCDninja on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:17AM (#11388218)
Morbidly fascinating.... The reference to experimenting with "putting ads into the start menu" makes me wonder what the consumer business model for Windows 10 looks like?
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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by herbst on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:32AM (#11388743)
You saw that they actually do ads there now (at least on some clients)?
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Re:Anonymous Ex-Microsoft Employee on Windows Internals by supercoder on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:59AM (#11388156)
This guy sounds childish
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