The register - "Windows 10 is officially a sh*t show."
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Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait
Some interesting observations on Windows 10.
Some interesting observations on Windows 10.
k ups over this length of time before.
Couple the problems described in this article with the new semi annual release channel where you have to accept their major updates within 18 months to stay in support (or is it now 3 years) and this is just a disaster waiting to happen.
This might be the thing that makes Linux on the corporate desktop a reality in the next decade.
This might be the thing that makes Linux on the corporate desktop a reality in the next decade.
I wouldn't ditch my windows 7 OS when 10 came out due to it looking very dodgy....Now it's official
Thanks for the information
Debian Linux is looking good for my future computing and I'll keep a Windows 7 machine at hand to run some windows only programmes
Perhaps when Microsoft reach Windows 12 all will be ok but I doubt it
Thanks for the information
Debian Linux is looking good for my future computing and I'll keep a Windows 7 machine at hand to run some windows only programmes
Perhaps when Microsoft reach Windows 12 all will be ok but I doubt it
I had a problem with a customer's machine locking up recently. It was an odd one, nothing apparent in the Event Logs, it just locked up solid at random points in time.
Eventually I spotted an entry, "The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000"
WTaF? This is a production machine that was never signed up for beta testing...
Nothing beta should be out in the wild unless you've signed up for a beta program!
Eventually I spotted an entry, "The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000"
WTaF? This is a production machine that was never signed up for beta testing...
Nothing beta should be out in the wild unless you've signed up for a beta program!
WinstonWolf said:
I had a problem with a customer's machine locking up recently. It was an odd one, nothing apparent in the Event Logs, it just locked up solid at random points in time.
Eventually I spotted an entry, "The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000"
WTaF? This is a production machine that was never signed up for beta testing...
Nothing beta should be out in the wild unless you've signed up for a beta program!
To cite part of the article:Eventually I spotted an entry, "The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000"
WTaF? This is a production machine that was never signed up for beta testing...
Nothing beta should be out in the wild unless you've signed up for a beta program!
The_Reg said:
In 2014 Microsoft decided it could do a better job if it discarded a lot of software testers. This bright new dawn was lauded at the time by Peter Bright at Ars Technica in a piece titled "How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century". Testers were soooo 20th century.
The previous month, Microsoft had laid off many of its Windows testers.
"Under the new structure, a number of Windows engineers, primarily dedicated testers, will no longer be needed," wrote Mary Jo Foley in her scoop for ZDNet.
Crowdsourced testing would be the way forward – and we should be thankful for this, Ars advised. "The goal is to make the OS team work more like lean startups," we learned. Lean. Agile. Heard this one before?
"QA still exists and is still important, but it performs end-user style 'real world' testing, not programmatic automated testing. This testing has been successful for Bing, improving the team's ability to ship changes without harming overall software quality," Bright wrote.
So we, the end users are the beta testers in effect, if that article is anything to go by.The previous month, Microsoft had laid off many of its Windows testers.
"Under the new structure, a number of Windows engineers, primarily dedicated testers, will no longer be needed," wrote Mary Jo Foley in her scoop for ZDNet.
Crowdsourced testing would be the way forward – and we should be thankful for this, Ars advised. "The goal is to make the OS team work more like lean startups," we learned. Lean. Agile. Heard this one before?
"QA still exists and is still important, but it performs end-user style 'real world' testing, not programmatic automated testing. This testing has been successful for Bing, improving the team's ability to ship changes without harming overall software quality," Bright wrote.
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