Even in Its Announcement of Exiting Retail, Microsoft Demonstrates a Lack of Attention to Detail That Generally Pervades Its Software Endeavors
Microsoft:
Since the Microsoft Store locations closed in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the retail team has helped small businesses and education customers digitally transform; virtually trained hundreds of thousands of enterprise and education customers on remote work and learning software; and helped customers with support calls.
Notice the double whitespace between retail and team. I had to go out of my way to represent that double space in Hugo, because that kind of facepalming inattention to detail can’t even naturally happen in a web browser. You have to be using an over-engineered, over-eager WYSIWYG for this sort of thing to happen. You also have to have a culture where writers don’t have an eye to catch these kind of WYSIWYG blunders. I noticed it immediately, because Apple software has trained me to have taste.
The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and what that means is, and I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way.
Make no mistake: the belligerent lack of taste demonstrated in the double whitespace is the reason Microsoft stores are shutting down.