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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."
So then why isn't Windows 10 getting any better?
My cat has fallen in love with Windows 10. It makes her litter box run far more efficiently than OS/2 Warp did.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Sounds like these people are providing valuable QA and focus testing
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10 million insiders does not equal actual testers. This is like the whole "number of registered users vs number of active users" that sites play. For example, i'm an insider because I was playing with windows 10 before it came out (10240). Once it reached RTM I refused to continue using insider builds because using windows 10 normally already has enough issues as it is.
... like the inability to remove Cortana, or the many bugs involving parts of the OS replicating OS features like the UI toolkit. Or the bug that the bitmaps of TrueType fonts are ignored so you'll always have those blurry characters. Or the longstanding Windows-Bug that the binary files of programs cannot be deleted when the program is running.... etc...
The feedback probably mostly goes to /dev/null, because many of the bugs either stem from decade old design decisions, or come straight from the marketing department. (which is apparently the most powerful department at Microsoft. Probably much more important than the sales department.)
They were all originally forced into a Windows 10 upgrade and now are showing empathy for their captors.
There's a reason companies that care about quality hire real QA instead of just spewing out garbage and hoping for the best.
wow... 10 million blind people... or do they just try to login without doing anything? with so much tester the system should run without a glitch.... but I keep experiencing daily crashes, many times a day... I'm really thinking to switch definitely to Linux... even in an all Microsoft environment
...aka people who SIGNED up for it when it was offered for free as a Beta download (like me), and who never got around to installing it or using it.
Later, I actually bought an OEM Windows 10 on an USB install memory key (official, from Microsoft), just so I could use my HTC VIVE (I'm a Linux guy in general). But microsoft kept mailing me on the "insider program", and I had so much trouble with it, I had to try to "opt out" again so I could stop having beta features on my new "officially purchased" license, strangely enough MS treated my license as if it was a beta license, despite never using the Beta license key.
Go figure...
But MS STILL thinks I'm one of the insiders.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
And of the 10 million, how many of them know they are "Windows Insiders"?
It's a piece of crap.
Windows 7 FOREVER.
10mil people will only use windows 10 the free way
Did Microsoft sign up all the voluntary insiders in the same manner everyone " volunteered " to upgrade to Windows 10 ?
Or does MS simply figure everyone is an insider by default since so much telemetry is sent back ( unless steps are taken to prevent it ) ?
India and China... Duh, the same places you get your support... Oh wait, what support. Windows 10 Creator Update better finally take it out of Vista quality status. I'm an early adopter and not a fan. I assume when they claim "testing" it, they really mean just "using", since it isn't getting any better with each iterative update, and one would assume that testing implies someone is getting feedback to correct the issues.
All the flaws of Windows 10 aside, describing the feedback from your testers as "furious" does not make me want to use your product.
I'm a "Windows Insider". My wife's little company has a couple of Windows computers, and I wanted to know what Win10 was going to look like, and how the upgrade process was going to go. The Insider program gave me earlier access, so I put Win10 on my gaming computer to look at. That's it. Claiming me as an "Insider" is pretty meaningless.
I don't game every day. But with the telemetry turned off (um...how much do I trust them...is it really off?) how would they know?
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Microsoft's corporate strategy seemingly is want everything you don't have by destroying everything you do.
Years ago was just a few loud Linux zealots you'd find at any neighborhood IT shop. Now I talk to people almost weekly willing to put up with lost functionality and usability issues to get away from Microsoft.
Numerous times in recent months I've sent long emails detailing what would have to be done fully expecting customers to say "F" that and fold only to be surprised by willingness to proceed.
Customers keep talking and Microsoft keeps doing the opposite. Entrenchment is not a cloak of invincibility not even for Microsoft.
Windows 10 insider program did it for me. I'm kind of glad now.
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 ...
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
This is exactly what I did...
Doesn't work, tried over 5 months on the settings screen, debated it in the bugs forums etc...
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
What the fuck is the article even about. M$ is inside every single mug punter, nothing voluntary about it what so ever http://www.zdnet.com/article/w.... Yep, uh huh, people volunteer for the M$ probe, stick it in deeper, oh yeah, twist it about, on yeah, pump it harder. Volunteer to stick windows 10 on a box and M$ gives you no choice, routinely fucking over the semi, somewhat, sometimes pretend privacy settings.
Those insiders and inside nothing, M$ is inside them, schmucks. Insider http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., so what special inside information do they get, none what so ever, so M$ double speak, when they say you are an insider, they actually mean they are the insider "a person belonging to a limited circle of persons who understand the actual facts in a situation or share private knowledge", that's you private knowledge they are digging into.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
I'm an "Apple Developer." How many apps have I made? Zero. Nice try Micro$oft.