All problems with Microsoft products are design and intent problems, not engineering.
replyThe design and intent are bad, but let’s not discount the large amount of bad engineering too.
replyThere is some brotherhood of coders who will not acknowledge programmers are anything less than perfect. All bugs and errors are the fault of project managers.
replyIf an engineer executes on bad intent and design goals and builds a bad bridge, that's also a bad engineer.
replyEngineers are not serfs, they have enough income and agency to be responsible for the fruits of their labor.
Is it 2019 again?
replyCan you explain this to me? I think it's far more 2000s, when we were having debates about whether software engineers were actually engineers, with professional responsibility, or not.
replyWinUI 3 was upgraded to stable/release when it had literally thousands of outstanding issues, including stuff like [fully replicable] 'using drag and drop causes the program to crash.' That was about the time I started opting out of the entire MS ecosystem after investing decades in it.
replyI can't even imagine the chaos they must have going on inside for them to be failing the way they are on the outside. I'm also curious what started it. They've never been a pinnacle of engineering, but things went really went downhill hard in more modern times.