On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
I find the idea of a community technical preview surprising, since Microsoft has been repeatedly refusing to fix bugs reported by the community unless you have purchased commercial support.
Have you filed a bug report recently? I filed one this summer and had a response the next day.
It seems they focus on adding new features rather than fixing bugs. While a good marketing strategy for a commercial product, it arguably doesn't work so well with a "community" approach.
Here some lists of bugs fixed:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320846.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/08/10/10338661.aspx
Yes, I have: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/752402/wrong-cod... https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/752386/std-atoll... https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/587544/copy-from... MS even stopped accepting feature requests via Connect. A modern UI style few people wanted was also considered more important then other IDE stuff. They do fix some things though, like https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/621653/including... -- Olaf