Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

Re:Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to b... by sschueller on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @01:53PM (#30701882)

Why would you build such a thing if you didn't intend to use it?

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Re:Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to b... by daveslash on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:21PM (#30702205)

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?

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Re:Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to b... by shaggie76 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:18PM (#30706851)

*It was to be announced at the party congress on Monday.*

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Re:Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to b... by tuwtuwtuwtuw on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:08PM (#30702047)

It could have been intended to be reviewed internally but then somehow was made public by mistake in the insider builds.

Where I work we write a lot of experimental features, behind feature flags which never end up being made available to customers.

Could of course be that they are just making it up. If this was an actual mistake it sounds like their QA is messed up.

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Re:Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to b... by bluefirebrand on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:59PM (#30704012)

I have been vocal against use of feature flags at my workplace, partly because of the risk of accidentally putting a feature live in a production or other client-facing environment.

Just this morning I got to ask "Why is this feature flag enabled in prod" to the stunned faces of people who had insisted that would never happen.

Maybe the same thing played out at Microsoft here.

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