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Interesting in Beta Testing?

Interesting in getting involved as a technical Beta Tester for Microsoft products? There's some instructions on how to apply here.

-Greg

Published Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:34 PM by chappell

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# re: Interesting in Beta Testing?

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:01 PM by Greg
A Reader (Nicole) had a good question about the use of the word "technical" in this post. There are really two types of Betas that we have at Microsoft- "Technical" and "Marketing". A Marketing Beta is a chance for customers to test drive the product before it's released. They are really looking for problems in the code, but are trying out the software to see if it meet their needs as a customer. I'm sure some bugs are found through this kind of Beta, but that's not the core intention here.

A Technical Beta is a true beta test. Customers from all types of backgrounds join together and look for bugs and add suggestions. This is the type of Beta test that maps closely to the kind of work we do at Microsoft as Software Test Engineers.

# re: Interesting in Beta Testing?

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:34 PM by Nicole
Thanks for the additional explanation.

So you need two types of marketing testers here as well - the 'powertesters' which will only test what suits them and the testers, who can 'emulate' the needs of customers. :o)
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