alt Hacker NewsI'm not thrilled with what they've done to Windows lately myself, but this is just rude.
You know a lot of talented people who work there also post here, and it's not fair to insinuate that they aren't talented because some vastly complex system somewhere in the world had a bad day.
Stuff happens, things break. That's why lots of nines cost a lot of money. It doesn't automatically mean that anyone is incompetent.
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i agree with everything you said here except the last part.
lots of nines means not having significant downtime. we passed 99.99% hours ago, and we're on the way to 99.9%
Stuff happens and things break everywhere but right now at Microsoft they break badly and often, that points to actual issues.
Almost certainly not the fault of individual people, it's a management failure of course
There are lots of talented amateurs. What separates professionals is standards, quality, teamwork, etc.
I agree there are many talented people at Microsoft, but I don’t see the professionalism in this incident.
Individual talent is irrelevant when you have a company culture that rewards the opposite of that. Any talented person working at Microsoft knows that they are dealing with structural problem that force MS products to be massive piles of shit. There isn't much an talented individual can do about that.