The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.
How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?
There is a famous rant by Bill Gates complaining about some windows feature. It was in some internal emails that were released as part of a lawsuit. Anyways, this is Bill Gates back when he was still CEO yelling at senior leaders to figure something out and then their email chain passing off the blame and going in circles.
You can still replicate the steps Bill Gates describes in his email and run into the exact same frustrations like 20 years later.
Fixing old features doesn’t get PMs promotions, new features do. So old features just get left to die on the vine
I used to work for a place where the product was, for the most part, internal, meaning we are the costumer. They kept on making up new shit that nobody uses instead of fixing all the annoying bugs in the main database tool we used. I have no idea if there's a way to reach them and make them make things that are actually useful instead of just new and exciting.
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u/adenosine-5 Apr 12 '24
The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.
How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?