Microsoft announces final Bug Bash before releasing Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

[Batu69]

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.

 

In her blog post announcing the availability of build 16237, Dona Sarkar also said:

We're really excited to do our 2nd (and final) Bug Bash for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update! The Bug Bash will start at 12am (Pacific Time) on Friday July 14th and will run a full week ending at 11:59 pm (Pacific Time) on Sunday July 23rd. As usual, we will be publishing new quests and will be doing some Mixer webcasts. So be sure to open Feedback Hub and complete as many quests as you can! More details to come early next week!

That's all we know at the moment, but more details will be incoming in the next few days. What's clear, though, is that we're drawing ever closer to the final code for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.

 

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[jdawg334]

Wow already almost time for another big update. Im still on the Anniversary update so how long till I have to update if I have CBB + the extra 180 days delay

[Karlston]

20 hours ago, Batu69 said:

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,

 

Good in theory, but a failure in practice.

 

Sacking their experienced inhouse testing team and replacing them with unpaid beta-testers AKA Insiders has been a failure.

 

The real unpaid beta-testers are the W10 Home users and W10 Pro users with Automatic updates enabled.

 

Meanwhile, Microsoft remains in denial. releases buggy updates, and pretends the Insiders experiment is working.

[WALLONN7]

2 hours ago, Karlston said:

 

Good in theory, but a failure in practice.

 

Sacking their experienced inhouse testing team and replacing them with unpaid beta-testers AKA Insiders has been a failure.

 

The real unpaid beta-testers are the W10 Home users and W10 Pro users with Automatic updates enabled.

 

Perfect as always!!! Congrats!!!

 

2 hours ago, Karlston said:

Meanwhile, Microsoft remains in denial. releases buggy updates, and pretends the Insiders experiment is working.

 

Denial time is over... Microsoft's in "We don't give a damn" time!!!

 

Few of us know it's a psychotic behavior ( Microsoft's ) and are careful not to be absorbed by this madness... The others only care when access to social media is interrupted or stops working...

[SPECTRUM]

12 hours ago, Karlston said:

Good in theory, but a failure in practice.

 

no, is good in theory and practice, we did something similar in a game emulator project few time ago and it worked perfectly with our community of users.

 

12 hours ago, Karlston said:

Sacking their experienced inhouse testing team and replacing them with unpaid beta-testers AKA Insiders has been a failure.

 

no, the original test team is still there and is not replaced with Insiders or unpaid people, the original test team is the group who test Canary Builds before Insiders, and they are paid for his work.

 

12 hours ago, Karlston said:

The real unpaid beta-testers are the W10 Home users and W10 Pro users with Automatic updates enabled.

 

no, there is still the same testers as before but even more, in the past there was just a private team and limited, while now is public team + community, so now they have more hands to test more things in a lot of different computers around the world, while in the past the beta tester program was really limited to test Windows properly.

 

12 hours ago, Karlston said:

Meanwhile, Microsoft remains in denial. releases buggy updates, and pretends the Insiders experiment is working.

 

as Insider I can say that the Insiders program really works, because they fixed the bugs I've reported and even that have implemented few things I've requested.

 

and about the buggy updates, that is not with all the updates, only few in the last 5 years, and if you compare it with the buggy updates between the first years of XP and 7, there were more bugs with updates than now with Windows 10.

[steven36]

@Batu69 here is the big bash there planing lol 

 

Reports: Microsoft set to announce thousands of layoffs as it focuses on cloud software

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/03/reports-microsoft-set-to-announce-thousands-of-layoffs-as-it-focuses-on-cloud-software/

Microsoft experiences the triumph and tragedy of transformation

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/10/microsoft-experiences-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-transformation/

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The company has moved on from one centered on Windows/Office to one based firmly in Azure and Office 365.

 

People need too get with Reality Windows is just about a dead project because of broken promises  and shattered dreams! there downsizing  Windows desktop just like the did Windows phones soon and Azure and Office 365 are there new babies  not Windows 10 !

 

The days of Gates and Steve Ballmer are not coming back there truing into a full blown cloud software company .  So if you use Windows 10 you're headed down a dead end path were it's just holding on by a thread . Sort of like when Ubuntu decided too  ditch smartphones for IoT devices were they make a profit on ..There is no profit in Windows anymore. it seems  Microsoft are trowing in the the towel ..

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CNBC said Microsoft's lay offs would impact some 3,000 people - most of them non-US sales staff.

The cuts follow several other rounds of retrenchments at the Redmond, Washington-based tech firm that saw 18,000 positions lost in 2014, 7,800 jobs in 2015 and 4,700 last year.

 

Sales teams downsized

Several US media outlets reported earlier this week that Microsoft planned a reorganization of its global sales and marketing teams as it moves away from the one-time licensing of its Windows and Office software and towards monthly software subscriptions that can be used on any internet-connected device.

 

http://www.dw.com/en/microsoft-lays-off-thousands-of-mostly-non-us-workers/a-39589696