<story><title>Cortana is really bad</title><url>https://medium.com/@johndavidback/cortana-is-really-really-bad-6ca96733ef4d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerflad</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Product Manager in charge of this feature should be immediately fired.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hate this kind of writing.  It undermines the otherwise good point the author has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lesiva</author><text>Agreed. The whole piece was emotional, but just reading that statement took it to irrational.&lt;p&gt;I think the underlying point of the article is that the experience of using Cortana could be improved, and Microsoft should be providing explicit next steps at every phase so that you aren&amp;#x27;t left wondering what&amp;#x27;s going on. I&amp;#x27;d agree with that. But claiming someone should be fired is ridiculous, especially considering that the author still doesn&amp;#x27;t know what the feature does and it could still pleasantly surprise him. It may just need an additional dialog explaining what to expect next.&lt;p&gt;I assume the feature gives you desktop notifications when the package transitions between tracking stages, and even if that&amp;#x27;s all the functionality it provides it&amp;#x27;d still be more useful than manually checking the tracking website yourself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cortana is really bad</title><url>https://medium.com/@johndavidback/cortana-is-really-really-bad-6ca96733ef4d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerflad</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Product Manager in charge of this feature should be immediately fired.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hate this kind of writing.  It undermines the otherwise good point the author has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>I think there are times when a firing is appropriate, as sometimes folks end up in a position for which they are obviously not well-suited. Let’s take as an example the PM that broke party chat on the Xbone when it was released. IMO, assuming the design matched the implementation, it is reasonable to question whether the PM had ever used the previous Xbox 360 or had ever played games on a console at all. I’m not saying Microsoft should boot them out of the company, but they sure as hell shouldn’t be writing specs for games consoles anymore. So “fire” them from the Xbox team, let ‘em go back from whence they sprang, be it another division within MS or some other company.&lt;p&gt;Now whether it is warranted in case, I cannot judge as I don’t use the product.</text></comment>