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The issue was caused by a race condition in extremely complicated software. Good luck setting up a gatekeeping organization that can track that level of detail (and understand every dimension of a possible fault like this).


I wouldn't expect the gatekeeper to track these issues but rather to sign the credentials that developers have. Then the individual developers (ostensibly) have a base level of training that set them up to more likely avoid these issues.


I don't know if you appreciate the level of complexity here. We're talking about a core diagnostics system (extremely complex software), that already has guards in place to protect against this stuff (complex again), but there was a race condition (complex again), and this one instance in likely billions and billions of transactions is what led to an issue.

What training do you think could have prevented this? Microsoft deals with complex software at enormous scale. Bugs happen. And in this case, it was a severe one that's already been dealt with.




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