> It's interesting that the same company can produce both Teams, being pretty bad, and VS Code, being very good.
Surely this demonstrates the wide variance you get with software and how important professional discipline is?
Surely this demonstrates the wide variance you get with software and how important professional discipline is?
For example a comment earlier mentioned the chat feature is broken but they rushed out video background changes. This of course is a response to zoom - and it's possible to argue it's a strategic necessity - but it suggest the top level product management is blowing around in internally company winds rather than user needs.
I would argue its a strategic failure. Purely reacting to the competition is something that has led to countless Microsoft disappointments (e.g. Zune, Bing).