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Big corporations that have software everyone wants to use can treat their paying customers as beta testers. You know this drill as Microsoft pioneered the prac
by Kaizyn 18y ago
Big corporations that have software everyone wants to use can treat their paying customers as beta testers. You know this drill as Microsoft pioneered the practice a long long time ago.
- stcredzero 18y agoBig corporations also treat their production staff using in-house software as beta testers, even if this costs them many millions of dollars in the few days after each release. (Because hiring a test staff for less than a million would be "too expensive.") It says a lot when a company can treat customers in the general public like in-house employees it can abuse.