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/
Dr. David McBride (dwm)
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I'm not that kind of doctor. Senior IT technical specialist and occasional patient magnet. Currently hostmaster@durham.ac.uk; previously answered to root@doc.ic.ac.uk, unix-support@csx.cam.ac.uk, postmaster@cam.ac.uk, oxcert@infosec.ox.ac.uk, and root@stats.ox.ac.uk.
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Dr. David McBride (dwm)
@dwm@mastodon.social
I'm not that kind of doctor. Senior IT technical specialist and occasional patient magnet. Currently hostmaster@durham.ac.uk; previously answered to root@doc.ic.ac.uk, unix-support@csx.cam.ac.uk, postmaster@cam.ac.uk, oxcert@infosec.ox.ac.uk, and root@stats.ox.ac.uk.
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