I do testing on new applications for Linux and it can be a real pain. Finding where to file a report on a problem and making sure it gets fixed. It does help me and others, however. I think that the way Microsoft does this is by releasing a buggy product and then collects the crash err reports from consumers to fix problems. In other words, they sell a product that doesn't work to start with and then, since they are a monopoly, force the user to be a test platform. I have seen this when I was a developer for Windows drivers and they released NT. It would not work and we reported exactly where the errors occurred so it could be fixed and I never really thought about it much, but we were doing what they should have done before they released a product.
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I'm a PC too, but I'm running on Linux. ;-)
Like it or not, we're all guinea pigs in one way or another. Trouble-free computing is but a myth.
What's so "special" in the case of Micro$oft is that they expect you to pay to become their guinea pig.
That, my friend, is the uniquely Micro$oft XP (experience). :-)
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