__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 02 October 2006 15:48 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft's Vista faces delays as public tests continue
>>
>> <snip />
>> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2384312,00.html
>>
>> It seems like the next Windows ME. Maybe they can officially release it
>> now for everyone to become an alpha tester. It's nothing unprecedented or
>> out of the ordinary.
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> Microsoft wants more Vista testers
>>
>> ,----[ Feed Excerpt ]
>> | It hopes to have about 5 million testers checking out latest version
>> | of Windows update, as it tries to stamp out bugs.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6115744.html
>>
>>
>> <snip />
>
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192700055&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
>
> 5 million testers? Lets say 5 bugs per user, 25 million reports.
>
> Thats impossible, the MS SQL datadase server couldn't cope with that rate
> of data input. It seems to choke a little when you hit the 256000 data
> object mark without a decent rest period (cacheing is all very well, but
> you have to abandon the cache and just get writing the data at busy
> sometimes).
>
> Perhaps someone could offer them a linux with MySQL on it for consolodating
> their bug reports.
Well, the Bugzilla concept has already been copied, so Internet Explorer
bugs, for example, can be handled in a way that involved the community of
users. Did I say /community/? *gasp*
Either way, in the above case, any tester would just become some
insignificant statistic rather than one heroic contributer. It's more like
an exploitation of lab rats rather than a request for kind attention and
borrowing of one's mind. That's the difference between being a Windows user
(tester) and being an opensuse tester the way I see it. You can actually
speak to the developer directly rather than send some insignificant 'pulse'
when your system hits a BSoD.
Best wishes,
Roy
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