MIcrosoft make the operating system running on hundreds of millions of computers, and run always-on cloud services at enormous international scale — and you're only now thinking, gee, maybe we should care about quality control?

In the age of stochastic sort-of-thinking "looks good to me" AI code-generators, no less.

At what point does it become appropriate to start shouting:

YOU'RE A FUCKING SOFTWARE COMPANY ENTRUSTED WITH THE WORLD'S ECONOMY, ACT LIKE IT

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/microsoft_appoints_quality_chief/