Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1 (Vista Install)

[Mark Wieder]

Bill-

Friday, October 20, 2006, 12:59:14 PM, you wrote:

> asked since Beta 2 (end of May). The whole point of an extended beta program
> is to get developers ready... to give them time to migrate their code or to

Nope.

The point of a beta release is to get a wider target for finding
problems before an actual release. People on beta programs expect the
beta software to be somewhat buggy and are so warned ahead of time.

And they're expected to report bugs. That's part of the beta
agreement. Compatibility is (or at least should be) an important part
of any OS release. If you're testing Vista beta and you're not
reporting compatibility bugs to Microsoft (clicking on the application
error dialog doesn't count) then you're not pulling your weight.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net