A Petiton To The Windows Beta Team

[jonken]

Thought someone might be interested in reading this piece of news. I came across it at www.digitalfive.org and the link to the website is this http://www.petitiono...5/petition.html

A Petition to the Windows Beta Team

We believe that this program is going in the wrong direction and communication towards the beta team has been stagnant. The goal of this petition is to get Vista back on track and hopefully become the Operating System we are all hoping it for be. A lot of us have already lost faith.

A few issues that plague the Vista team include (but aren’t limited to):

Very slow response times on bug reports

Not enough interims for testing

The builds we do get are “CTPs” which are always recompiled a bunch of times and are usually way outdated once they are “dropped” on Connect

Connect’s website is unusually slow and buggy compared to the Whistler WindowsBetaWeb website

The Microsoft Vista Beta Team gives very vague reports and usually closes bugs as not reproducible or fixed and usually this is not the case.

Very poor communication from the team in general in newsgroups and the Connect site (though there are exceptions to a few employees)

If you agree with any of the above or are worried about Windows Vista in general, please sign it!

Edited April 20, 2006 by jonken