Say goodbye to your QA teams, most likely. Microsoft laid off all of their software QA staff in 2014 and went to a model where developers build automated testing and validation as part of the development process.
And, though it shouldn't come as a surprise, if you weren't using a Windows machine and 100% Microsoft software for your daily work currently, you eventually will be.
As a former MS employee around those years this is not entirely correct.
Test people changed their titles to software engineers and were judged by that, this means that if you could code (and MS helped with that when necessary) you were fine. Since MS favored test people who can code anyway that wasn't a big problem for most, but not all.
Personally I used a macbook and so are many of my colleagues,some even use Linux machines- all on a need to basis.
The windows org flat out refused to implement combined engineering, so upper management forced the issue by laying the testers off. In the Office org management did what they were supposed to and it was as you described.
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Say goodbye to your QA teams, most likely. Microsoft laid off all of their software QA staff in 2014 and went to a model where developers build automated testing and validation as part of the development process.
And, though it shouldn't come as a surprise, if you weren't using a Windows machine and 100% Microsoft software for your daily work currently, you eventually will be.
As a former MS employee around those years this is not entirely correct.
Test people changed their titles to software engineers and were judged by that, this means that if you could code (and MS helped with that when necessary) you were fine. Since MS favored test people who can code anyway that wasn't a big problem for most, but not all.
Personally I used a macbook and so are many of my colleagues,some even use Linux machines- all on a need to basis.
The windows org flat out refused to implement combined engineering, so upper management forced the issue by laying the testers off. In the Office org management did what they were supposed to and it was as you described.