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Quote: ...Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find...
That dates us. Being able to remember when MS tested things...
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They still test some things, and pretty exhaustively as well.
Peoples' patience, mostly. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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THat also translates to "MS Developers were paid to play games at work" 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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And I think I heard that most who worked at that time came out with a lot of money...
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Overtime rates?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Then the bean counters decided to put the money into the bank instead, and here we are with our patience being tested...
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MS still tests things... they just outsourced it to their customers. Kinda like Seagate did with their MFM/RLL drives back in the late 80s/early 90s...
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And Walmart replaced its cashiers with its customers.
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Sim City is/was massively popular. Rule of thumb: if the user changed something and things break, the user blames that something. That is, if the user upgrades to Win95 and things break, user will blame Win95, instead of the sloppy QA that went into Sim City.
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Some early posts on Raymond Chen's blog (The Old New Thing) also talk about the lengths that MS were forced to go to to get some of the cr@ppy software that people wrote for 16-bit Windows to run on Windows 95 (he was personally involved, in the sense that he tracked down what was causing problems like this and created fixes). You'd be amazed at some of the stunts they had to pull to get things to work.
Compatibility was important, of course, to get Windows 95 accepted in the marketplace (just in case nobody here has mentioned that yet).
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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davepl (plummer) talks about it too now and then (randomly). DavesGarage[^]
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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What do ghosts eat on Halloween?
Goulash
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I know that they are bad liars - you can see right through them.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Where do belly buttons go to college?
Navel Academy
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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They too hate fetch quests.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Have to hunt for my own food.
I haven’t got the slightest clue where tacos live.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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They live in tortilla fields.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Ok. But you’re not allowed to go into those because that’s nacho field!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Unless you are a glutton for PUNishment.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I don't get why we still have farmers with cows and pigs.
Just buy your milk and meat at a store, people!
Also, why do all cows have girl names?
There's a deep connection between our food chain and the patriarchy!
Both these comments were seen on Twatter (and those people weren't joking) and reconstructed here from my memory.
Unfortunately, these people get to vote too 
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