Why are Microsoft products so unpolished?
Okay hear me out, there are just so many products that I have used over the years from Microsoft that are filled with bugs and often don't work as intended. Just to name a few: 1) Windows Vista/8/10 2) Outlook 3) VS CODE 4) XBOX windows app It's gotten to the point everytime I have to use software that Microsoft made, I have PTSD that something is going to not work and it literally ends up happening. Just today I wanted to try the Xbox game pass which comes with EA play, and guess what happens? The app bugs out when you try to access EA play. I look up the issue, and we have a huge handful of individuals who have the same issue, no solution. Time and time again, Microsoft has these issues, just go through their support forums on windows and you will find thousands of unresolved issues, some of which have existed for a decade. Microsoft has a high hiring bar, and pays engineer above average, but what kind of practices are enforced in Microsoft to allow all these bugs to roam around ?? More evidence: https://youtu.be/OeHjN4oWVfk
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Its too engineering focused and not really customer focused. In many cases they release products that are ahead of their time but so f** up from an end user experience point of view. Take something like Cortana that's been around longer than Alexa but its soo poorly designed. Or even windows vs mac OS. Engineering makes products but they know nothing about the end user experience.
That's a really good point. Designing for the end use in mind is really important, but tbh even from an engineering stand point you would think some of the bugs wouldn't exist, but clearly some individuals forget a bunch of edge cases when writing their code that could have been tested for in QA or unit testing even integration testing for goodness sakes.
Xbox itself is very rough around the corners. Amazed still how well it's selling Btw I don't consider vs code to be unpolished
For the most part it's fine, but there are some really annoying bugs I've run into while using it
Doesn't Snapchat still use a screenshot on Android instead of the actual camera? And you have one product. πππππ Glass houses and all that.
How is that bad engineering? It's genius considering storage costs
It's 100% garbage engineering. We're talking about storing fleeting images, not 8K videos.
Who the fk is still using Snapchat?
I have a really good reply to that π¬ but Imma keep quiet cause I'm a good boy
Like bulk of the Gen z pop in the US.
I used MS office as a child to make presentations, write essays and excel for tables. Yesterday (after almost 8years) I had to do some quick sum, avg, product math on a medium sized data set and had no other option than use excel. It was actually smooth but felt like itβs decades behind.
I have been a competitor to Microsoft twice. I have worked at Microsoft too. I won the first two rounds (their BI product sucked so much 20 years ago, the other product had been removed from market and trashed). Microsoft is extremely good on their main strategic focus and globally not so good for the outer belt. But they are extremely resilient and there was a saying that 1st version sucked, 2nd version was decent and 3rd killed you. For BI, it waited for the 30th version but itβs pretty good now. They are too slow and too risk averse (employees are joking all the time about βjob securityβ). If you want a career, you have to work on βbig rocksβ subjects, hence the best techs and/or best politicians work on those.
Constant push for new half baked product features. Never have time to clean up and stabilize. The code is atrocious and people love over-complicating the simple things which leads to a lot of unintended side effects
They suck at design
MS products (aside from MS Office) is true garbage. Quality is non-existent. What %% of the hacks are done on MS products? Vs., say IOS? Exactly. I was a multi-year dedicated WIn user but had to use Mac for the last 3 years. I must admit - IOS changed my mind completely. Not a single crash. No need for a 3rd party AV. Loading, updating, and using Anaconda/Python is a breeze. Enough said.
High hiring bar? π
looool I had a feeling this would be pin pointed. I said it cause I couldnt pass it, that's all π