Mark--
Email these contacts--they want feedback, and oblige them by feeding
them. They were on the setup group 3 hours ago, (so much for "MSFT
doesn't ever monitor these groups" and I posed a very similar question
and you can go look at it: You shouldn't have to use a middle man to
get your questions answered although I know the offer was well
intentioned. This whole transparency thing is frankly stupid. There is
lack of information on Vista components to a ridiculous degree by MSFT
who pays hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries to employees who
have computer science training and degrees who are designated writers
and community liasons and they haven't written a thing on major
components on Vista yet on MSFT's site.
Corey Snow Microsoft Connect Feedback Team
(e-mail address removed)
Nick White [MSFT] <
[email protected]>
Nick runs a Technet Vista Team Blog
I posted to them: (and got no reply which was expected)
Why Nick/Corey--
1) Aren't the bugs' categories that Paul Donnelly has massaged 50
million
ways to Christmas for distribution to the appropriate developers, team
members and PMs, since you all have access to cluster servers and SQL
and
all of MSFT's expertise can be brought to bear in sorting them haven't
you
posted the categories of bugs and their contexts like
1) Fixed in Build
2) Will definitely be fixed in a future build or SP whatever
3) We won't fix until perhaps Vienna Blackcomb or never
so that the public can see what the bugs have been and continue to be
in a
one stop shop searchable place on Connect just as the TBTs can? Why
freeze
out the public in so many respects? There is no harm into distributing
this
knowledge. The Gates Foundation has a big educational component. The
Beta
for Vista denies information in a very harmful way toward Vista learning
curves. The technical writers on the Vista team have dragged in getting
info onto MSDN or Technet and the Product Guide is very very superfiical
sometimes giving important topics like Desmond Lee's teams' Win RE a
couple
sentences. There is very little on Win RE on the Web--I include nearly
all
the links when I post to help someone fix Vista that exist unless they
add
nothing more to the info on my links as it is now.
Win RE btw is not working nearly as consistently as a Repair Install in
XP
does. Auto Repair for apps and utilities and components of Vista
themselves is a good idea, but it fails much of the time.
Why doesn't the public who I believe is getting a couple builds as a
primary
**marketing** i.e. sales tool have the same access to bug reports as
TBTs--why the "considering it"--it should be a no brainer.
Why deny the public access to the Vista Beta chats so that they can get
information on using Vista and a little of the information they are
denied
by not having access to the bug info on Connect?
Why deny the public access to the Vista Live meetings?
What in the world is the downside and the harm to MSFT or anyone else
not to
share this info.
There is scant information on MSFT's site now on several key topics,
features, and components within Vista.
CH
Have raised lots of bugs, and get closure and/or feedback reports most
days regarding vista bug reports I have submitted, however, I am not on
Connect Vista, so cannot view or the reqested followup comments,
because I got my Vista via MSDN CTP. If someone can help from MS, I
would much apprciate it.
I know the official line, is that Connect Vista is closed, but I sure
it can be worked around...
Thanks.