January 2005 Entries

Nice, 24 is back on

I thought last season was the last one they could stretch it out for. But no!, 24 is back, this time in what appears to be real HD (as opposed to that 480p stuff Fox has been doing the last few years), so it looks and sounds better too. Plus it's off to a decent start, minus all the contrived love story stuff. I'm tuning in to see stuff get blown up, thank you very much. Whenever Jack Bauer goes apeshit on somebody, it's...

posted @ Monday, January 10, 2005 4:59 PM | Feedback (0)

Community bug reporting: six months later

Just a quick update on how we're dealing with taking bugs straight from customers via MSDN Feedback. We definitely were concerned about the impact this was going to have, time wise. We had to do some adjusting and hire a contractor to help us work through the bugs. At the very beginning we were getting a couple hundred issues a week. Just the time it takes to sort through those, make sure they are "well-formed" bug reports, not duplicates of existing bugs, etc. was at least a full time person. So for...

posted @ Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:05 PM | Feedback (0)