Microsoft Accepts Their Desperate Need For An Engineering Quality Czar

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It has been just two days since the live broadcast of the latest PCPer podcast and it seems Microsoft and Satya Nadella finally took our advice.  We have been stressing the need for Microsoft to bring back it’s Quality Assurance team, after they fired over 15,000 employees, for quite some time now.  It was yet again a topic on this Wednesday’s Podcast and today Microsoft have announced that Charlie Bell will be the new engineering quality czar; obviously thanks to our continued efforts.

The Register may have had something to do with this as well, after pointing out that Microsoft has “to stop Azure outages or reduce the quantity of Windows patches that break the OS instead of fixing it? Or perhaps Nadella needs a lieutenant to do something about Microsoft’s recent out-of-band patch spree, or come up with uses for AI that excite more than the 3.3 percent of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users who are willing to pay for Copilot?”

We won’t know how effective the new initiative will be, after all a good third of the Windows OS is now generated by AI.  This will be challenging to police, as it is estimated that Windows 11 contains between 60 million and 100 million lines of code.  That is a lot of AI generated content to try to manage!  Here’s hoping that one of the first things Charlie Bell does is rehire all the quality assurance engineers that Microsoft recently fired and extends the team even further.