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Microsoft's Last 'Bug Bash' Before Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson quotes BetaNews:
With the launch of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Build 16237 to the Fast Ring yesterday, Microsoft wheeled in numerous fixes and new features. At the same time, the company also announced that the second Bug Bash for the next big update to Windows 10 is about to take place. This is the last Bug Bash that will take place before the release of the final version of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and it will see an intense period of testing with the help of Windows Insiders. Things kick off on Friday, July 14 and continue for more than a week.
Of course, the whole idea of the insider program is to help Microsoft to home in on bugs and get them fixed before software is released to the masses, but the Bug Bash steps things up a notch. Participants will be asked to take part in quests to check specific elements of the operating system as Microsoft draws closer to pushing out this latest feature update.
This build includes "read out loud" functionality for PDFs, support for emoji 5.0 -- and now when you relaunch Edge after it crashes, your tabs will be restored automatically.
Of course, the whole idea of the insider program is to help Microsoft to home in on bugs and get them fixed before software is released to the masses, but the Bug Bash steps things up a notch. Participants will be asked to take part in quests to check specific elements of the operating system as Microsoft draws closer to pushing out this latest feature update.
This build includes "read out loud" functionality for PDFs, support for emoji 5.0 -- and now when you relaunch Edge after it crashes, your tabs will be restored automatically.
Is it just me or does this read more like an advertorial than a traditional ./ post?
That would be pretty hard to do.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"This build includes "read out loud" functionality for PDFs"
Which has already been in 3rd party software for --- how long now?
"support for emoji 5.0"
Now there's a real killer feature that will increase productivity a thousandfold!
"and now when you relaunch Edge after it crashes, your tabs will be restored automatically"
That's awesome! But ... um ... how about fixing Edge so it, you know, doesn't crash? By way of comparison, I can't even remember when Chrome has ever crashed on me.
The undiscovered bugs can always be fixed in the Windows Fall Creator Anniversary Blue Imagine S update. The fuck is wrong with versioning things the old-fashioned way? I can't even recall if Windows Anniversary was 10.1 or 10.2, and I worked on Windows 10 when I was at Microsoft.
Why in the world would you want to spend you time doing free bug testing for a for-profit company that doesn't have your best interests in mind anyway?
I would rather put in my time fixing free software; at least I get something for my time there -- a good feeling of having contributed something to a worthwhile cause, not someone else's profit margin.
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
Microsoft probably figures that you spent forty hours actually working and fifty hours watching a circle made out of dots go around and around while Windows wanks.