{"id":5991,"date":"2009-12-07T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/12\/07\/shipping-a-great-release\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:21:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:21:16","slug":"shipping-a-great-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/shipping-a-great-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping a great release"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen a number of comments here (and elsewhere) about VS 2010 being another “Vista”.  We are very aware how weakness in a few key areas (like performance) can cast a pall over an entire product.  As I said in the original post, we are committed to shipping a great release (in all respects).\nDavid mentioned in a comment on my last post that we are taking “risky fixes” later in the product cycle than we usually would.  David’s right but I’d like to add a little color to this.  We normally think of Beta 2 as our “validation” pre-release.  We are looking for customers to confirm or deny that we are about ready to ship.  We have tons of feedback opportunities before Beta 2 (CTPs, Beta1, more CTPs, TAP customers, dogfooding, etc) to try to make sure we are in a position for customers to say “yes”.<\/p>\n

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  1. This time they did not.  As a result, several things have happened:
    We have spun up an effort to reach out to every customer (external and internal) who said no to understand why and try try out fixes.<\/li>\n
  2. We have assessed (and will continue to) why our metrics were telling us one thing and our customers another.<\/li>\n
  3. We have reset many of our scenarios, metrics and goals to better align with the feedback.  As importantly we’ve communicated to the division that “this is not good enough”.<\/li>\n
  4. We have redoubled our effort on performance investigations and fixes.  We’ve made some pretty substantial improvements.<\/li>\n
  5. We have adjusted the end game schedule to allow for more performance improvements while maintaining a high quality bar for the final release.<\/li>\n
  6. We are working on adding another widely available pre-release after the first of the year to give us another round of readiness feedback from customers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We’re committed to making it great.  I’m not saying noone will flame us over something – of course they will.  That happens pretty much no matter what we do.  But we will make sure the vast majority of people are very happy with the release.\nThanks,<\/p>\n

    Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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