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herbst
This is hilarious.

I especially loved the part where he explains that Metro was/is designed in PowerPoint. I did not expect that, but it makes perfectly sense now.

_Understated_
The most frightening part for me (if this is indeed real) is that they have no testers.

TBH the lack of testers shows: I used Windows 8.1 since it came out and apart from minor issues at the start (Start 8 is a godsend!), I never once had a BSOD... Win 10 gave me 3 in 3 months so I removed it.

mindcrash
They have technical testers, SDETs (or Software Development Engineer in Test) in Microsoft slang.

UX testers on the other hand... not so sure.

analognoise
It can't be that bad...can it? Now I wish I could see the source.
osullivj
Sounds like mid 90s style C++ MFC GUI dev with widget IDs in the .h needing to line up with the .rc and all refs in the .cpp.
gcp
Doesn't sound unusual for large projects with a long history that had deadlines to meet and a ton of actual users.
LCDninja
Morbidly fascinating.... The reference to experimenting with "putting ads into the start menu" makes me wonder what the consumer business model for Windows 10 looks like?
herbst
You saw that they actually do ads there now (at least on some clients)?