Star Windows 7 Testers Find 2,000 Bugs: Be Proud You Found One
Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 27th Feb 2009 00:15 UTC
Windows It's been nearly two months since the beta of Windows 7 was officially released to the general public, and some of us have been getting fidgety to know just what bugs have been reported and what will be fixed. Microsoft was biding its time, letting the information collect and nearly stagnate, when we finally got official word on some of the results of the testing process.
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ichi
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2007-03-06

I don't understand this. You seem to be saying that beta testers for Windows 7 or Ubuntu are somehow paying $30 an hour for the privilege. Said money goes either into Microsoft's coffers or to 'millions of people' somewhere, depending which product you're testing. Not my words - yours.


No, he's saying that beta tester is a paid for job that in this case some people are doing for free so a corporation saves some money in the process of developing a commercial product.
It's a matter of maximizing the profit getting people to work for free.

Then he went to compare it with beta testing ubuntu, which is a free (in every sense) product.

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DrillSgt Member since:
2005-12-02

No, he's saying that beta tester is a paid for job that in this case some people are doing for free so a corporation saves some money in the process of developing a commercial product.
It's a matter of maximizing the profit getting people to work for free.

Then he went to compare it with beta testing ubuntu, which is a free (in every sense) product.


Where is a beta tester paid? Can you give some examples please? Most beta testing is done for a company by customers. Companies have paid QA people, but those are not beta testers.

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ichi Member since:
2007-03-06

Where is a beta tester paid? Can you give some examples please? Most beta testing is done for a company by customers. Companies have paid QA people, but those are not beta testers.


Most know example could be game testing, being the kind of job most teens dream about ;) (they might change their mind though if they asked people working at, say, Eidos).

Beta testing is part of the QA process, and it's only done for free when you can find enough people willing to do so.

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