<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[MSFT beta testing too&nbsp;hard?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Rob La Gesse wrote me a very constructive email today <a href="http://techwrecked.blogspot.com/2006/04/its-hard-to-be-microsot-beta-tester.html">about how difficult beta testing Microsoft&#039;s products is</a>. Instead of emailing it around I asked him &quot;could you blog it?&quot; Why? Cause I thought it would start a good conversation and to tell the truth I don&#039;t know who to email it to anyway. Putting things like these in public usually gets to the right people faster than if I try using email. It&#039;s weird that way. Even if the right people don&#039;t read my blog, usually someone who does forwards my posts along. I&#039;ve seen that happen hundreds of times already, including several times just this week. (I had a really great conversation with David Webster, the guy who runs all the naming programs at Microsoft, but more on that later).</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks Rob for starting your blog!</p>
<p>To everyone else, this is a good chance&nbsp;to&nbsp;talk about what betas you&#039;d like to be added to and/or give the folks who run the beta programs some&nbsp;constructive criticism about how to run them better. Thanks for the help.&nbsp;</p>
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