Windows Reliability Beta Program Sign-Up
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 28 January 2003 - 08:44 · 4 comments & 105 views
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#1 Posted by ICEMEDIA on 28 Jan 2003 - 08:59
- Cool post there Voodoo.
I signed up sounds like a cool beta.
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#2 Posted by DJ Prem on 28 Jan 2003 - 09:17
- how do you singup cos it give me the msn sing in page but it says i need a e-mail & password
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#3 Posted by Darkness2k on 28 Jan 2003 - 12:03
- you sign in with your passport... If, like me, you already have a BetaID then it takes you to your beta's (as usual). You want to click on the Guest ID at the top right somewhere, where you enter AppTermReporting and it then lets you fill out a short (pretty much the same as the other beta surveys) questionnaire... Hope that helps
The Microsoft Windows Reliability Team requests your participation in deployment of a special Windows reporting update to study Application Termination failures. All testers with 32-bit, English language versions of Windows XP, Service Pack 1, including both Home Edition and Professional, are eligible and welcome to participate. We are especially interested in testers whose computers are equipped with a broad range of applications and hardware devices. The program will begin within a few days and last for a maximum of 8 12 weeks.
The extended reporting code is essentially invisible and unintrusive. It does not execute at all until you attempt to close an unresponsive application. At that point, it gathers some additional technical information for submission using the standard Windows Error Reporting mechanism. It is important to note that the update does not call home nor does it collect any personally identifiable information without your explicit permission.
So why are we doing this and what data are we trying to gather? We want to ensure that it is always possible to terminate and restart an application that is unresponsive (a.k.a. hung). Windows XP improved on previous versions, but there are still some types of hangs that we dont fully understand. With this reporting update, when you attempt to terminate an application that wont close (using the End Program dialog), additional kernel data structures and timestamps are collected and sent along with the standard data when you submit error reports to Microsoft. We will then analyze these reports and use the results to help both Windows and application or driver writers to improve their code.
Our goal is to have a broad group of testers willing to actively participate and provide useful feedback to our development team. Please carefully consider your willingness and ability to test this extended reporting update. Your feedback will be critical to the success of our investigations. Regular and consistent participation, in the form of always providing us with your Windows error reports, is expected throughout the program. If you know of specific ways to hang an application (for example, trying to burn a CD or DVD), wed like you to cause this to happen and provide us the error reports.