Stop asking me! + Bug list

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Thanks for the note Andre. Still some questions:
1.. I didn't really see this bug in the Geocities site you gave. Which one
is it?
2. Is there an official "Known bug list" maintained by Microsoft?
3. Also, this is a beta but there doesn't seem to be any way to report bugs
to Microsoft, except perhaps for this list, but then it's amibuous whether or
not they read this message group and consider this the "official" way to
notify them of bugs. What is the preferred, official way Microsoft wants us
to alert them of bugs?

Mark
 
Mark - this is a public beta with 18,000,000 active installations. As such,
the amount of direct interaction between Microsoft and the users has to be
limited, otherwise we'd never see a beta2.

There is an official bug list, but it is not public. The one maintained by
Mark Ferguson in the unofficial FAQ is reasonably accurate, I believe, but
not easy to read.

Beta2 will be rewritten from scratch in order to deal with issues such as
mutiple users, limited, users, and accessibility and localization. Hence
most appearance type bugs and, indeed, most bugs in the beta1 product will
disappear.

For the purposes of this public beta, the official way to notify Microsoft
of a bug is to post in these groups.
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Bill Sanderson said:
Mark - this is a public beta with 18,000,000 active installations. As
such, the amount of direct interaction between Microsoft and the users has
to be limited, otherwise we'd never see a beta2.

There is an official bug list, but it is not public. The one maintained
by Mark Ferguson in the unofficial FAQ is reasonably accurate, I believe,
but not easy to read.

Beta2 will be rewritten from scratch in order to deal with issues such as
mutiple users, limited, users, and accessibility and localization. Hence
most appearance type bugs and, indeed, most bugs in the beta1 product will
disappear.
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I had wondered why Microsoft bothered to buy something instead of do it
themselves. I had looked at the product when it was still owned by Giant
and passed on it. I passed on MSAS beta, too. Hopefully the Beta 2 will be
much better. Microsoft pretty much got stuck with a lemon. Oh well, maybe
they'll make lemonade out of it. Guess it might've been useful as a
training aid for them. I never did see how much Microsoft paid but it was
probably a lot pricier than training their programmers or hiring some with
the expertise.
 
I think the beta 1 release is a modfied version of GIANTs product that
Microsost was probably trying to re-engineer. Some technologies that use to
be in GIANTs version are not in this release which probably suggest the
product is under major development. Based on interim release screenshots of
what I have seen running on interim releases of Windows Vista, drastic
changes are expected UI wise and underhood. From being implemented into
Windows as a system wide service, integration with the Windows Security
Center and Windows Update.
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