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sterlind | on: Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
he was such a nice and effective CEO the first few years. he's really changed.
kakacik | parent | next
Was he? I struggle to see it even in hindsight, and definitely his moves were bunch of FU to common users. Maybe in some specific area you care about, but not their core products like windows and office
cyberax | parent | next
Not really. He killed the QA department immediately and consciously put MS onto the "slide into mediocrity" path.
motionlessveloc | root | parent
Google killed its test engineers (or, rather, forcibly merged them into SWE) at around the same time without measurably denting uptime.
pjmlp | parent | next
Even with some of the Microsoft <3 Open Source, I do miss the Steve Balmer era in regards to Windows development experience.
bell-cot | parent | next
Executive compensation corrupts, chief executive compensation corrupts absolutely.
Markoff | parent
yeah very effective, he fired 90% of our Windows Store team (reviewing the apps) in the first year to replace people with automation, I survived up to the last round of firing after which they kept ~20 employees out of original ~200