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Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the not-my-gumdrop-buttons dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: Microsoft has mandated that the feedback functionality built into Windows Insider Preview beta be switched on -- a change from earlier when testers could block questions from the company about what users thought of specific features. Starting with Build 14271 and newer, the frequency in which Windows 10 will ask for your feedback will be locked to 'Automatically (Recommended)' in the Settings app. This would seem to disrupt what has traditionally been seen as a tacit understanding between corporations and their beta testers/sandboxers in that the latter would volunteer their time, effort, CPU cycles, possible hardware failures/breakage, and more as part of a bargain to receive feedback or to test fly the beta OS with internal software environments in private. Microsoft would now seem to be altering that relationship.

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  1. Obligitory by Pikoro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft would now seem to be altering that relationship.

    Pray that they don't alter it any further.

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  2. Re:Hardware failures? by penguinoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Over the years: 1 mobo, 1 hard drive, 2 graphics cards, 1 monitor all due to betta testing NT4.0

    Bettas are notoriously aggressive. Although it was probably the water that killed your hardware.

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  3. Not Star Wars enabled by Latent+Heat · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I am altering the deal . . . pray that I don't alter it any further" has nothing to do with praying to the Abrahamic Deity.

    It has more to do with telling Microsoft that their "sad devotion to that ancient religion has not conjured up" a stable release of Windows 10.

    If you don't participate in the beta test the right way Microsoft will "find your lack of faith . . . disturbing" and start choking you over an open port on your PC . . .

  4. Re:The solution seems obvious to me... by davester666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cannot believe FP was not "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

    WTF is slashdot coming to?

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