I've always chosen not to install the "preview" updates, and always been a little surprised that Microsoft offers them at all. Isn't that what beta testing is for?
I guess this justifies my decision.
I guess this justifies my decision.
MS stopped caring about quality long ago. Now they seem to be experimenting with how abusive they can be towards users.
> Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. [1]
So we've got a year and change. And they may push it back, like they pushed back EoL when people didn't upgrade from XP or 7.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
Perhaps "supported" should really mean "controlled by Microsoft".
At least I'm glad they keep an isolated channel for these early deployments.
Didn’t they fire all their in-house QA ages ago?
No, they didn’t? Like most other companies 10 (or so) years ago they transitioned their internal QA teams to development-role teams. Unless you’re referring to some particular XBOX gaming studio. For Windows there was some layoffs at the time of QA-to-dev transition, but they didn’t “fire all their in-house QA”. They just moved them to the current “industry standard” dev-qa-ops model, unfortunately.
But keeping the people and giving them a new role means the old role isn't being done, and I don't think it's done good things for product quality. The old way was expensive, and far from industry norms, but the product was more reliable.