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> maxing out dev machines

This is how we get software catastrophes like Teams. There is no earthly reason for it to suffer from the bugs and performance issues that it does and I have to believe the developers responsible for it are completely unaware of how much this software sucks to use because of their hot rod developer workstations. They still dog food at Microsoft don’t they?

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Failing to test on lower-end hardware or refusing to optimize is not the result of giving devs good computers, it's management that doesn't care. Doesn't care to test on lower end, doesn't care about how much ram/cpu, doesn't care how laggy it is. Even if a developer wanted to do this work good luck getting management to sign off on it, I've seen this happen myself more times than I can count.

> They still dog food at Microsoft don’t they?

Ha ha ha, no, probably not. A relatively recent post from an alleged ex-Microsoft employee said that all the designers use Macs, which might be the reason Windows keeps getting worse.

I use a Mac for work in a corp environment and don't experience any of these insane problems.

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