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Re:Bug in std:shared_mutex on Windows by mschuster91 on Sunday March 03, 2024 @03:35PM (#39584296)
Microsoft makes ~16 billion $ a quarter in profit, of which they return ~10 billion $ to their investors.

They could go and spend 200 million a quarter on decent customer support without making too much of a dent in their financial line.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2023-q2...

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Re:Bug in std:shared_mutex on Windows by AnthonyMouse on Sunday March 03, 2024 @03:41PM (#39584347)
$200M is approximately $0.15/user. How much support do you expect to get for that?
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Re:Bug in std:shared_mutex on Windows by mschuster91 on Sunday March 03, 2024 @04:14PM (#39584611)
How many of these 1 billion users actually need support? Only a tiny fraction.
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Re:Bug in std:shared_mutex on Windows by AnthonyMouse on Sunday March 03, 2024 @04:31PM (#39584711)
Uh... what? If there was a free number you could call to get competent technical support, people would spend their entire day on the phone with it instead of reading documentation or hiring IT staff.
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