Shoutbox

I'm furious at Microsoft now, if this is true then how the fuck do they support this, beta 2 wasn't compatible with 64bit operating system's, there's been no beta 3 to correct this how the fuck do Microsoft expect to release final to public without full private beta testing experience.

Everyday I feel like switching over to Mac OS X more and more because of Microsoft's absolutely poor development cycles.

Why the hell even have a beta testing period if they're not going to utilise us, or listen and work out our reported bugs, suggestions and other issues.

Beta 1 got leaked (nothing can stop that I know) and had lots of installation issues etc most in connect were 'solved' by non re-producible, will not fix, by design or duplicate request, some bugs claiming to be resolved in Beta 2 were not such as the WLmail not associating itself with mailto: commands, and rendering itself unable to launch at all without editing the registry via subinacl and a .cmd.

Beta 2 was public release and incompatible with 64 bit OS's (whereas beta 1 was) also there were lots of issues with Windows Live Photo Gallery (still are) that are 'active' on connect, I've never been able to use it on a 64bit OS for instance.

Why are Microsoft taking such a shitty approach to this?

I know I'm not the only one to feel this way about Microsoft's recent activities and testing (hell a bug posted by our very own sunshine is #1 on connect at the moment and it's still active and un-resolved, it's to do with Microsoft update system of moment which seems to be causing more and more problems each month more recently with WSUS installing desktop search tools without approval by admins)

So Main ramble over.

Question really is;

What the fuck is Microsoft playing at?

It's no wonder they're getting so much bad press at the moment!

Apple is becoming really popular while Microsoft is digging itself a hole. Microsoft Connect is so hard to use it puts me off reporting bugs in the first place.

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Originally posted by absorbation
Apple is becoming really popular while Microsoft is digging itself a hole. Microsoft Connect is so hard to use it puts me off reporting bugs in the first place.

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Agree on all accounts

But still. Apple sucks

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Originally posted by absorbation
Microsoft Connect is so hard to use it puts me off reporting bugs in the first place.

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and its not like they do anything about the bugs you report anyway

guys.. Microsoft knows more than all their customers.. they know what we all want.. they don't need our bug reports

There has been SEVERAL internal builds that were distributed for a group (less than 1000) of testers. Just because they haven't had a private managed beta doesn't mean they're ignoring all of the reports. There will be a refresh, stop ranting .

Mess.be has it released already

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Originally posted by deAd
Mess.be has it released already

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Who says that's the final version? That's a pre-release.

I'm rebelsean and I like to brag about my connections with people inside the messenger team.