No it's not.

The problem is that a lot of bugs are reported that we couldn't repro due to inadequate information, or inability to reproduce. Also, the sheer volume of bugs during a product cycle precluded us from more than a cursory glance at an externally reported bug if repro info/code was inadequate.

After product ships, every bug is looked at a bit more carefully as testers now have more clock cycles (no more test runs) and to see if there's a potential Service Pack issue.

Finally, we had customers telling us about bugs who were wrong 19 out of 20 times and others who were right 9 out of 10 times. So who do you think we'd pay more attention to when a bug was claimed with limited time to investigate?


>>I wish Milind would help get Connect up and going so I could report these bugs properly.
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>Inside the MS the respect for other people's job is really zero!
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>If a site of feedback is published, this has to be alive until the product it is on sale.