Re:Microsoft Edge now gets even more out of your battery
by Sylos on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:35PM
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I'm pretty sure that Microsoft actually does not have a QA department.
I can't seem to find a source which confirms specifically that, but after Nadella took over in 2014, he cut a bunch of jobs, which were mostly jobs from the Nokia acquisition, but he also specifically mentioned in this context that he wanted to go more into the direction of agile software development, which means no dedicated QA and rather the developers are supposed to test it as they build it.
Source for that statement is in this article under "Cloud Methods", second paragraph: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-15/microsoft...
Nice dichotomy there: privacy or quality. And people wonder why MS gets such a bad name.
What about their "walled garden" philosophy ? All tablets/laptops are one-size-fits all, only a handful of total models exist. All MS "updates" are shoved down the users' throats. There should be no need for telemetry to detect a bad user experience. The apps are all signed, binary blobs that run in their own private, signed environment. Unless MS has no QA department, they absolutely are aware of how crappy their browser runs.