It's been nearly two months since the beta of Windows 7 was officially released, and you will be awestruck hearing this- 2000 unique bugs reported and fixed in windows 7!
This happened because in every Windows 7 program, the title bar has a “Send Feedback” option. So Microsoft is listening to lots of people who are clicking the button!
According to Steve Sinofsky (the sin-of-sky effect is not intentional), senior vice president, Windows live engineering group, Microsoft received over 500,000 reports- that means over 500 reports per developer. During a "peak week in January," they were receiving one report about every fifteen seconds.
Sinofsky goes on to describe what a "bug" really is for a developer. It sounds rather broad, especially with that phrase, "any one of dozens of different ways that the software can behave in a way that isn't expected."
Though, I want to be more exact, a bug is anytime a cosmetic issue, a consistency issue, a crash, a confusing user experience, a compatibility issue, a missing feature, or any one of dozens of different ways that the software can behave in a way that isn't expected!!!
A bug for us is not an emotional term, but just shorthand for an entry that was not made correctly. Nothing to be taken to heart.
Bugs are reported by a human using the various forms of “telemetry” built into Windows 7.
Microsoft has already fixed 2,000 bugs in Windows 7, and I'll bet that there'll be plenty more before this beta is finished in August. Go, go, Windows.
As a side note, don't you think I'm entitled to 1/250,000th of the profits made on 7 for my two Send Feedback items… what do you say?
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