Tell that to Apple, Google and the thousands of other companies developing consumer software that don't provide a program similar to the insider preview. Are you seriously claiming they are all stuck in 2005?
ahha...
apple? do you remember apple maps? do you remember 'you are holding it wrong', bend gate, wifi issues and bunch of other stuff in EACH X.0 version of iOS?
google? do you remember how useless is most of their 1.0 versions? and yeah, since that they never use major releases, just small iterative ones, that can break small things, but fix them soon as well. do you remember gmail after all? how many years it had BETA right over it name?
do you know that developers in both mentioned companies CAN and DO install prerelease mobile OS builds for testing, but unfortunately for them - dont have this powerful feedback system.
If you're developing custom software or work in the enterprise space
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i'm talking about public customer software. i'm talking about giants like gmail, salesforce, Facebook, AAA MMO titles - everything that involves a lot of users in release and needs large fraction of that users at tests as well.
You can't do that with consumers. As you can see in these forums, a lot of people have difficulty dealing with the raw results.
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you are NOT a customer. did you read licence agreement for Tech Preview?
you are voluntary member of dev team, with limited rights and limited access to builds, but still a member of dev team. you ARE NOT a genius, that got pricy product for free before anyone could buy it - that's the problem for all complainers. you can REPORT bug, but you have no rights to COMPLAIN about it.
I think you're taking textbook passages from an agile programming course and wanting to rigorously apply those methodologies to any situation you encounter. People just aren't machines. You have to adjust depending on who your customers are. It has nothing to do with 2005 vs 2015. People haven't changed that much in that time.
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yet no book about methodology and approach that MS is using on us in TP program. it's not agile as it's written in books, it's [partially] new invention. and yeah, people dont understand HOW they are being used, for being able to sell product better, to have better marketing image - for free.
ofc, as side effect, everyone gets better product at the end.
but this IS genius adjustment of process for the customers, which (for WM10) we are still not - it's not released yet.