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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.
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.
Because everybody knows there's nothing like a self-selected sample to get accurate insights into your product.
Ask me how the Heisenberg Principle may or may not have saved my life.
They were all originally forced into a Windows 10 upgrade and now are showing empathy for their captors.
Because everybody knows there's nothing like a self-selected sample to get accurate insights into your product.
This is what I find hypocritical of Microsoft. The people who are going to sign up to get prerelease versions of Windows are going to be the more tech savvy crowd who are going to articulate what they want, and then get summarily ignored...
"Provide a means to actually-disable telemetry!" ...Because that's what I think they seem to want.
"No."
"Let me control my update cadence!"
"No."
"Provide a classic mode for the Start Menu, even if it's not by default!"
"No."
"...At least let me leave Classic Shell in after the different major updates?"
"No."
"Let me use Chrome without Edge acting like a clingy ex-girlfriend?"
"No."
"Stop auto-downloading apps I didn't ask for?"
"No."
"Can we use ZFS or at least ReFS in desktop Windows?"
"No."
"Could you stop changing my default PDF reader?"
"No."
"Could you make the control panel situation a bit more consistent?"
"No."
"Could you integrate more cloud storage providers, rather than plastering me with OneDrive ads?"
"No."
"Could we have our integrated backup tools back like we used to have in Windows 7?"
"No."
"Could my installed drivers be set to be excluded from auto-updates in Windows Update?"
"No."
"Then what feedback *do* you want?"
"The kind your computer provides to us automatically."
"So, you don't want actual human feedback, then?"
"No."