Re: FLASH: flash 5 problem (OT)

[Mike Weiland]

> on 7/18/2000 10:49 AM, Wayne Pennell ( Web Master ) said:

>

> > That's funny ... Bill Gates became one of the richest men in the world

by

> > distributing his beta software out so beta testers .. i.e.. "anyone"

could

> > download it.

>


But Microsoft's beta is not organized, where on Microsofts site do you log a

bug or search for known bugs? When you open it up to the everyone you have

the problem of engineering trying to reproduce nonexist bugs, incomplete

steps or user error. Look through a lot of the posts here of people asking

for help. They send in incomplete descriptions that is if we're lucky, some

don't even give detail. Now multiply that on a global scale and assign an

engineer and a QA person to each one of these and you eat up your resources

and you'd probably burn out a good software engineer very quickly.


My thoughts,


Mike Weiland

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