10 Million Insiders Test And Use Windows 10 Every Day, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com)

When Microsoft made Windows 10 publicly available to all users in 2015, it said about five million people had signed up for Windows Insider program, and were using the OS every day. That number has grown to hit 10 million now, it said this week. From a report: Microsoft launched Windows Insider in October 2014 with its first public Windows 10 Technical Preview, and by that December the program counted 1.5 million members. It was a solid start, but the company now says that in just over two years numbers have grown 566 percent to 10 million fans. "We count over 10 million Windows Insiders today, many of them fans, who test and use the latest build of Windows 10 on a daily basis," wrote Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group. "Their feedback comes fast and furious, they have a relentless bar of what they expect, but it so inspires our team and drives our very focus on a daily basis."

Comments

Re:Sure

[poofmeisterp]

So then why isn't Windows 10 getting any better?

It doesn't need to. They have more fans!

Make That 10 Million And 1

[dryriver]

My cat has fallen in love with Windows 10. It makes her litter box run far more efficiently than OS/2 Warp did.

Classic Stockholm Syndrome behavior

[JoeyRox]

They were all originally forced into a Windows 10 upgrade and now are showing empathy for their captors.

Re:How much do they get paid?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Can you make a VPN connect one-click?"
"No." ... Because we interviews all 10 million, and most stated they wanted to right-click, left-click, search menu options, click-again, then click to Connect...
Which is obviously, much, much simpler... Keep up the good work there Micropenis.

Amazing ...

[angel'o'sphere]

10M massochists volunteering to play with that?

I have to use it at work since 6 weeks ... you can not even properly grab the edge of the window with a mouse to resize it.

Dragging a window from one screen to the other or releasing it to close to the edge ... then it will go full screen automatically ... the search function in the explorer is not working properly ... since windows 7 I think. And people "volunteeringly" use this pile of crap?

I close my Dell Laptop, unplug it from the docking station.

Next morning I plug it in again.

All windows are now on the screen of the laptop and not where they have been before: a nice set of chat and mail tools on the laptop screen and all the programming tools on the "external/main" screen.

Helllllllllo? That worked 1987 on a Mac just fine!!

And it is impossible to have a window overlap screens, the sizes get distorted ... and trust me, the resolution of the laptop is just fine, bullshit like this never happened on a Mac.

So the 10M people have no clue how a computer should work but are masochist enough to beta test ...