Windows 10: Do MS listen to all feedback

All I know is that the sleep bug I, and others, reported was fixed in 9860. But who knows whether it was our feedback that caused this. I am just glad the fix was made.

 

Microsoft wants to make their customers happy. That's the way to sell product. I will say that Microsoft is swinging back to the point that we're getting more options and choices, which were gone for awhile there. So if a compromise is possible, Microsoft will go for it. Hi there

Not wanting to get into the realm of Politics - but there's NOTHING wrong with some types of Contract Labour or even Part TIME. I deliberately exclude that abomination known as "Zero Hours" contracts -- most places outside the U.K rightfully outlaw the worst excesses of that type of working.

I've done contract work for YEARS and prefer that way of working -- What would I do in the same place for YEARS just doing maintenance after a new project has been rolled out. Just get BORED TO TEARS I guess.

With contract work I (and still do) get travel all over the world.

Large engineering (or Software or even Banking I guess) projects work best that way -- you need a HUGE number of extra people during the build phase who you don't need afterwards

Here's a PERFECT example for using Contract Labour - you couldn't really use any other kind on this type of project. London's New Cross Rail Project. Different people in for building Tunnels, installing electrical / mechanical gear, designing the stations etc etc. The new Canary Warf station will even have a publically accessible REAL Horticultural GARDEN on top of it !!!

Here's a link to this fascinating project.

Crossrail - Crossrail

Here's the First tree being planted at Canary Warf (Garden opens in 2015) -- must be the ist public underground transit system with a ROOF garden being built on it too.

http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/arti...-wharf-station

In the EU - apart from the UK which opted out of "The Social Charter" bit even Contractors have to get a minimum of 1 Days paid holiday for every 13 weeks of work so it's not all doom and gloom.

I often ask I.T "Permies" what they do for an "Encore" after the once in a lifetime large project gets rolled out -- usually it's not much other than maintenance which IMO can get really boring.

Cheers
jimbo

 

OMGoodness, Jimbo, did I give that impression!?

I am so sorry if I did because I was a contractor for many years before I was arbitrarily retired. I also worked part time to supplement my income after retirement. So, I certainly don't look down my nose at contractors or part timers.

And although I said that "you don't have to give benefits to contract labor" that simply means that, in this case, Microsoft doesn't have to be the one to pay into a retirement fund, insurance fund, etc. However, the company that "contracts the labor force" to Microsoft would be the one responsible for "benefits" to its employees if any are offered.

And no, I don't consider this political; just a clarification that Contract Labor isn't nasty, mean or hateful, but that it's a necessary and clean way for Microsoft to get things done on a timely manner.

 

This might not be news:

The feedback is read by machine - metadata collected when users submit feedback helps sort the feedback
Further processing organizes and prioritizes the feedback - then development teams get their report.

Note: your feedback is stored in sub-folders under
AppData\Local\Packages\
with a naming convention
Microsoft.MicrosoftFeedback_8wekyb3d8bbwe\
LocalState\
{1ad6cd15-725f-4cba-918d-0b7c02129ead}

It's probably easier to find the files if you search 'This PC' for
UIF_Feed type:json

Raw file looks like this: Code: {"BuildString":"9841.0.amd64fre.fbl_release.140912-1613","ContextId":"54","ContextVersion":"0","CountInstances":0,"EnvironmentName":"UIF_Production","FeedbackId":"225b2380-4954-496f-a2c6-aa00614f438f","FeedbackInstanceId":"3cd6d14a-d792-4d25-8d9b-23b43b731048","FeedbackLanguage":"en-US","IsAbuseReport":false,"Text":"Win8.1; HP dv6-6c10us laptop, 6GB RAM: running Win10 in a Hyper-V machine (4GB vRAM, 30GB vhdx). VM 'lives' on a 40 GB physical partition. Home: I added a folder to Favorites and a new Favorites object (big star icon) appeared on my desktop. I could not remove the object, although it did move the focus to the Favorites folder when clicked. I unfortuanetly forget what contxt menu picks were presented with a right click. One must have been 'Create a shortcut' - I selected that and looked at the properties of the new shortcut on my desktop. Finding nothing interesting, I deleted the 'second Favorites' shortcut and the 'first Favorites' object also was removed. I have subsequently added more to Favorites without the issue re-ocurring.\u000d\u000a","TimeFirstReported":"\/Date(1413121092286-0400)\/","UserId":"0000000000000000"}[/quote] Pretty printed:
{
BuildString:9841.0.amd64fre.fbl_release.140912-1613
ContextId:54
ContextVersion:0
CountInstances:0
EnvironmentName:UIF_Production
FeedbackId:225b2380-4954-496f-a2c6-aa00614f438f
FeedbackInstanceId:3cd6d14a-d792-4d25-8d9b-23b43b731048
FeedbackLanguage:en-US
IsAbuseReport:false

Text:
[Home location-Explorer] I added a folder to Favorites and a new Favorites object (big star icon) appeared on my desktop.
I could not remove the object, although it did move the focus to the Favorites folder when clicked.
I unfortuanetly forget what contxt menu picks were presented with a right click.
One must have been 'Create a shortcut' - I selected that and looked at the properties of the new shortcut on my desktop.
Finding nothing interesting, I deleted the 'second Favorites' shortcut and the 'first Favorites' object also was removed.
I have subsequently added more to Favorites without the issue re-ocurring.

\u000d\u000a
TimeFirstReported:\/Date(1413121092286-0400)\/
UserId:0000000000000000
}

This information is only the first stage in sorting the issues, I'm sure the feedback app collects more useful information. I just don't know the full implementation.

 

OMGoodness, Jimbo, did I give that impression!?

I am so sorry if I did because I was a contractor for many years before I was arbitrarily retired. I also worked part time to supplement my income after retirement. So, I certainly don't look down my nose at contractors or part timers.

And although I said that "you don't have to give benefits to contract labor" that simply means that, in this case, Microsoft doesn't have to be the one to pay into a retirement fund, insurance fund, etc. However, the company that "contracts the labor force" to Microsoft would be the one responsible for "benefits" to its employees if any are offered.

And no, I don't consider this political; just a clarification that Contract Labor isn't nasty, mean or hateful, but that it's a necessary and clean way for Microsoft to get things done on a timely manner. Hi there

No probs -- sometimes reading stuff on the net conveys a different meaning to what you would actually say if the person was say standing next to you in a Bar / Café. Also there are loads on this Forum who'se nr 1 Language isn't always English (whether of UK / USA / 'OZ etc variety). !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

 

If I recall correctly, Microsoft stated somewhere they can't reply to all the feedback but they do read it.

 

I believe it's included in a statement when you send feedback, Groze.