Beta Testing...

I see 06 is coming out early this year, release on Tuesday. Instead of
coming here to look for bug workarounds and missing or unintuitive
features... or whining about how bad the software is, maybe I can help make
it better.

How would one get on the list to test '07? Is it worth the time and effort
to test and provide input? Do the folks at MS listen and impliment bug fixes
and usability suggestions?

Thanks,

Tom.

Dan
Sun Jul 03 19:51:05 CDT 2005

Microsoft allows anyone to fill out a "potential tester request" on
their site beta.microsoft.com. You could try filling it out and saying
you're interested. I'm in the program and the only thing MS has me
test is boring web server-related stuff, but you might have better
luck.
-Dan

Tom
Sun Jul 03 22:00:55 CDT 2005

Thanks, Dan. I signed up. We'll see. Tom

"Dan" <danf879@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft allows anyone to fill out a "potential tester request" on
> their site beta.microsoft.com. You could try filling it out and saying
> you're interested. I'm in the program and the only thing MS has me
> test is boring web server-related stuff, but you might have better
> luck.
> -Dan
>

Vadim
Mon Jul 04 11:16:21 CDT 2005

n> How would one get on the list to test '07? Is it worth the time and
n> effort to test and provide input?

yes.

n> Do the folks at MS listen and impliment bug fixes and usability
n> suggestions?

Yes, though if it's really a suggestion, it's more likely to be considered
for a future version. Beta testing is usually about finding "showstopper"
bugs, but the feature set of the current release at that stage is already
fixed. This usually applies to all products, not only Money and not only
Microsoft.


Vadim Rapp

Tom
Mon Jul 04 17:14:24 CDT 2005

Understood... so perhaps now is the time to put in my suggestions on the
wish list links. Even so, there's some usability problems I'm having that
could be considered bugs... they're really not working the way the manual or
help file says they should.

Thanks for the info.

Tom.

"Vadim Rapp" <vr@myrealbox.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23%23840OLgFHA.3656@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> n> How would one get on the list to test '07? Is it worth the time and
> n> effort to test and provide input?
>
> yes.
>
> n> Do the folks at MS listen and impliment bug fixes and usability
> n> suggestions?
>
> Yes, though if it's really a suggestion, it's more likely to be considered
> for a future version. Beta testing is usually about finding "showstopper"
> bugs, but the feature set of the current release at that stage is already
> fixed. This usually applies to all products, not only Money and not only
> Microsoft.
>
>
> Vadim Rapp

Vadim
Mon Jul 04 22:30:45 CDT 2005

Hello Tom,
You wrote in conference microsoft.public.money on Mon, 4 Jul 2005
18:14:24 -0400:

TO> Understood... so perhaps now is the time to put in my suggestions on
TO> the wish list links. Even so, there's some usability problems I'm
TO> having that could be considered bugs... they're really not working the
TO> way the manual or help file says they should.

Email them to mswish@microsoft.com

If for whatever reason it's not accepted, post the response here please.


Vadim Rapp

John
Tue Jul 05 15:51:38 CDT 2005

I suspect MS Money people frequent this board quite often. The suggestions
and requests from some of the most knowledgeable and dedicated users, many
who are regular posters on this board, have fallen on deaf ears for years. I
wouldn't be too optimistic about them taking users requests very seriously
let alone implementing them in the software.

<none> wrote in message news:eb6EKTAgFHA.3692@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I see 06 is coming out early this year, release on Tuesday. Instead of
>coming here to look for bug workarounds and missing or unintuitive
>features... or whining about how bad the software is, maybe I can help make
>it better.
>
> How would one get on the list to test '07? Is it worth the time and effort
> to test and provide input? Do the folks at MS listen and impliment bug
> fixes and usability suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom.
>