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So in essence, Microsoft just handed this off to one of their junior programmers and he wasn't aware of how to do random correctly.

I don't see this being a result of Microsoft's malevolence, merely a programmer's ignorance. I doubt that Microsoft would do something that would be caught while fighting anti-trust charges.

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It might be an "oops" from a single programmer, but I thought a high-profile site like this would at least go through some basic code review. The bug isn't that subtle, either.

For the ui JavaScript? Certainly none of the places I've worked subject that to real code review.

I love the (distressingly common) attitude that the only code exempt from review is the layer that interacts with the user, which can completely obscure or invalidate the correct functioning of all the other layers.

Why doesn't your javascript code go through code review?

I'm not debating that it should (certainly if it's javascript that I'm writing), I've just literally never seen that happen.

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