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> How on earth is MSFT supposed to maintain comparability for quintillions of iterations of hardware across millions of machines with no data on what works and
by stordoff 7y ago
> How on earth is MSFT supposed to maintain comparability for quintillions of iterations of hardware across millions of machines with no data on what works and what doesn't?
Isn't this the same problem they've faced for decades, and largely successfully managed before the telemetry?
- reilly3000 7y agoArguably 'successfully' is relative- Windows 98, ME, Vista etc famously struggled with BSODs all the time. I imagine they were operating in relative blindness, basing their triage efforts on incomplete, angry user reports. They didn't have reliable information on which build was breaking, how many users were getting the same error, how frequently, on which types of hardware. With structured data they can prioritize fixes that affect the most users and verify their patches were effective.
- rwallace 7y ago> Windows 98, ME, Vista etc famously struggled with BSODs all the time. Windows 98 and ME struggled with BSODs because they were still built on something designed as a GUI layer on top of a CP/M clone. Vista mostly fixed all that. I've been running Windows 7 for most of a decade now without a single BSOD.