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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by setquk on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:28PM (#19031395)
It takes them forever to fix stuff as well. For about 6 months it had “Reply Al” instead of “Reply All” on OWA. Trivial but it shows how crap their QA is.
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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by vezycash on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:19PM (#19032036)
They fired their testers. Now users - both paid and free are testers. Then they go extra-miles to ignore user/tester feedback.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/microsoft...

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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by cm2187 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:15AM (#19033499)
And also it shows they don’t use their own products (the Reply All typo should shock the guy who owns the UI). The one software the dev team does use is Visual Studio, and it shows. It keeps evolving, not frozen in time in the 90s, the evolutions make sense, they are user centric, pretty much every version is a visible improvement over the previous version (except vs 2013). It’s basically the exact opposite of Office.

That theory breaks on Windows though. Is Microsoft a MacOS shop?

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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by vezycash on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:11AM (#19033921)
About Microsoft not eating their own dog food.

Nadella used an iphone secretly for a long time and then openly and then finally killed Windows Phone.

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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by cm2187 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:03AM (#19034145)
And it's also the only major Microsoft software that doesn't use a ribbon!
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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by romwell on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:46PM (#19031488)
> “Reply Al”

Maybe they're just fans of Paul Simon[1]:

  If you'll be my bodyguard
  I can be your long lost pal
  I can call you Betty
  And Betty when you write me
  You can call me Al
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
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Re:Office 365 global authentication outage by setquk on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @02:45AM (#19033395)
Great reference :)
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