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		tjalfi on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc00... They laid off thousands of testers in 2014[0]. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that quality plummeted afterwards. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...

sabarn01 on July 15, 2020 [–]

Most were moved to dev. The difference is Dev are responsible for writing tests now which was not true prior.

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