Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar, and shifted Charlie Bell, the company’s executive veep for security, into the new role.

Nadella announced the new job and Bell’s appointment in an internal memo he shared on the Microsoft blog.

“Charlie built our Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management organization and helped rally the company behind the Secure Future Initiative,” Nadella wrote, referencing a “Quality Excellence Initiative” that has “increased accountability and accelerated progress against our engineering objectives to ensure we always deliver durable, high-quality experiences at global scale.”

Nadella’s post doesn’t say why Microsoft needs someone to focus on engineering quality at this time.

Surely it couldn’t be because Microsoft uses AI to write 30 percent of its own code?

Maybe Bell’s needed to stop Azure outages or reduce the quantity of Windows patches that break the OS instead of ...