Back in the 1990s, the joke used to be that "At Microsoft, quality is job 3.1" (based on Ford's then-current slogan "At Ford, quality is job one").
Unfortunately, things have gotten worse, not better. BTC (before the cloud), customers would look at a next-gen product blowing up in deployment, and go "hmm, nope, we'll stay with what we have, thanks". Today, that's not an option, as MS is pushing people off of their existing systems, and into the new tech, whether they like it or not.
That could be beneficial, if MS was releasing solid, secure improvements to the customer stream. But they aren't. They're flailing around, in mad panic, adding features that they want, not what the customer has asked for. And worse, by concentrating on the shiny new features, they're ignoring the core features of the operating system.
I though IBM's OS/2 1.3 CSD 5050, known as "the CSD of doom" was the nadir of consumer operating system rollouts. Even WinME wasn't that bad. But MS has now surpassed it.
When customers are not only unwilling to implement vendor fixes, but discussion fora are filled with customers discussing how to not only bypass, but defeat vendor patches because they're afraid of them, there's a serious problem. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't seem to care all that much, based on how they're doubling down on their rollout strategy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
