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Can confirm, it is 100% hubris based on my limited time of working at Microsoft.

There is pervasive NIH syndrome, re-inventing the wheel, and massive amounts of over engineering and unnecessary abstraction caused by chasing the endless "But what if...?" dragon.

This behavior is justified, and critics are silenced, by the "But we're an enterprise company!" cop-out




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