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Microsoft was famous for testing the Mac version of Office on base model 60MHz PowerPC machines
by bluedino 5y ago
Microsoft was famous for testing the Mac version of Office on base model 60MHz PowerPC machines
- cube00 5y agoApparently they had whole labs full of banks of machines in many common configurations to test their software. However now the "insiders" get the privilege of doing it for them for free under the guise of shaping the product direction. Windows Updates are drip fed out to classes of machine so they can limit the damage when they hit a class that inevitably fails because it was never tested before rolling out to production on that hardware. I appreciate they can never test every configuration but based on what they used to do it's clear they identified a need for this kind of testing in the past so what's changed? Why don't they need to do this testing anymore? Why make your users do it for you, for free, no less.
- seoaeu 5y ago> Why make your users do it for you, for free, no less. I think you answered your own question.
- Dagger2 5y agoThey did the same for Windows 95: developers were given 386s with 4 MB of RAM to test on, because that was the minimum requirement for Windows 95. And in the end, it ran -- just about -- on those specs.
- kiwijamo 5y agoDid later editions (e.g. 95b) still run on the 386? I remember running 95b on a Pentium 166 MMX with 32MB of RAM and even that was a challenge at times!
- p_l 5y agoOSR2 ran pretty nice on 486 DX2 with 16MB of RAM
- kazen44 5y agothe same with Dave cutler, the lead on windows NT, making sure everyone dogfooded NT as soon as possible.
- grishka 5y agoI often test my Android apps on a nexus 5. Though its battery is so bad it sometimes shuts off while booting while plugged in, I do wonder if they're still selling batteries for this thing.