Windows 10: Do you think Ms Reads these Forums -- would be a good idea

Hi there

I wonder if Ms reads these forums at all - it surely would be a good idea since on the whole people are fairly knowlegeable and do some quite rigorous testing.

I'm sure Ms would get better feedback from the Forums than going through NINE QUADRILLION replies via windows feedback or other sources.

If I were at Ms in Windows 10 development I would make it mandatory for the development teams to READ the Forums at least once a day and in some of the labs try and replicate what users have posted on the Forums. !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

:)

 

Who thought it would be a good idea to design a system where software developers could spray **** all over end users hard drives, and you'd make it imporssible to delete it?

And I've spend all day using it to work, works for me and a lot of others!

 

Who thought it would be a good idea to design a system where software developers could spray **** all over end users hard drives, and you'd make it imporssible to delete it?

Try Traveljohn for your computer incontinence.

 

I believe they do selective monitoring,
How to share feedback on Windows 10 Technical Preview? - Microsoft Community
Technet forums - Windows 10 Technical Preview

And even then you would need to add a grain of salt to even these options that in the past it was really the vision of the department heads....

Would Microsoft be better served by reading/ monitoring forums probably so but it's allot to sift through *Smile

 

Well if they had any brains at all they would.

So, no.

 

True, it is a lot of reading Mike, but on here, SF and EF the information is all together in a controlled environment, grouped into respective categories and on the whole has much more constructive content than the Windows Feedback program. I've been reading through some of the feedback and some of it is laughable at best, a lot of good feedback will undoubtedly get lost in the noise.

 

Why would M$ bother - they've got their own focus groups. Probably made up with M$ employees.

On the other hand, I wish they did take more notice outside of the Redmond bubble.

 

I'd say EF wasn't my favorite forum and leave it at that ie11 based *Wink

The only advantage the two other forums have that 7-8-10 forums don't have is they do put most helpful and marked answers at the top under the original question,
That's a definite double edged sword when hate rants are those answers or most helpful posts *Biggrin

Better moderating could solve that issue which 7-8-10F will definitely have but never a clear quick to find answer unless it's a three post question *Wink

 

Based on how the Feedback App and official forum have "Likes" then I assume that MS is focusing on the most popular bugs/suggestions (based on top Likes). While this forum is way better for finding out perhaps "rarer" bugs, MS's priorities probably lie in fixing whatever most people are concerned with first.

 

Yep if you had all day to scroll through all of the feedback apps post you still would be finished in a day,
But yea they often look at the most number of votes good/ bad or indifferent :/

I personally just leave feedback as new and leave it at that so I know it will be ignored anyway by Microsoft Heads *Biggrin

 

I would think they do read forums. They had those shrills working on Windows 8 and 8.1 "explaining" that Windows 8.x was great and you could do this and that with keyboard shortcuts and adding a third party start menu. They patrolled many a forum and would berate and belittle anyone who did have constructive criticism of Windows 8.x. So yes they employ people to read and answer forums, they have gone very quiet on 8.x but are probably researching 10 views now.

 

All I will say is that you might be surprised at the IP Addresses of some of our members across all the sites over the years we have been running *Wink

 

I would think they scan through forums like this just to see what's going on and then read the threads that get their attention. Now saying that I do think that MS has key people that provide the majority of feedback that's used. It would be totally chaotic if MS, or any company, used all of the feedback they're receiving right now.

What I think they want right now is feedback that's useful for the future development and patches for the current version of Windows 10. Simply going in with totally negative feedback will likely be ignored.

My 2c
Jeff

 

*Smile.

I am ashamed of an astronomical amount of things in my life but I am not ashamed of this: I am a Windows and Microsoft fan boy. In fact, in a strange way I am even a bit proud of that. I like the way Windows as operating system has evolved and where it seems to be going, I like the new way to use Office, Office 365. I like the way Sharepoint and Azure have made things easier and (really!) even more affordable to small businesses (big ones, too, but I am mostly interested in what they can offer for smaller businesses and private entrepreneurs).

That being said I feel it is my obligation to participate in and enable every "call home" feature possible in all Microsoft operating systems and programs, "call home" feature here meaning those "Would you like to help Microsoft and allow your PC sending information about your use of this OS / program?". Take for instance installing Windows 8.1, I always select Customize here:



... which allows me to enable these three settings which by default are disabled and remain disabled if Express Settings are selected:




I do this when I install any version of Windows or Windows Live or Office or Visual Studio or Sharepoint Designer or whatever; if the possibility to participate is there, I will enable it.

I have a simple, you might even say naive reason for this: I like to believe that my action counts, that in some strange way I am not capable to understand a geek in Redmond just might find something in error, install or other reports sent by my PC which then might be a small part in finding a solution or better way to do something. Of course I know this must never happen but as long as the possibility is there, I will participate. An analogy from politics and democracy, it's a litlle bit like voting: your vote alone means nothing but enough people voting like you might (as has happened) even make way to democracy.

In addition, this gives me a good feeling that as a user I am doing my share in making the next version even better.

Summary:

I am not sure if MS reads every feedback they get but I am sure that it is important to give feedback. I will, I hope you do, too.

 

Yeah I don't care what they collect as long as it's not my porn, kidding, I've never had any real major gripes with Windows, I'm happy to let them collect whatever they need to make the system better.

I really hope they succeed in their current mission to unify Windows on multiple devices.