Apparently 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 d

Apparently 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.