Microsoft Hired 50 Families to Test Vista

This is interesting. It seems that Microsoft, over the period of a year (or maybe longer) hired 50 families around the globe to use Vista every day and test it, giving interviews, bug reports and feedback in addition to all the activity loggers built into the test versions of Vista that were logged, sent to Microsoft and compiled for the dev team to see.

The public beta that you and I participated in was just the last minute icing on the cake to make sure no show stoppers were still in the build it seems and contributed a huge amount of information to the refinement and updates that went into Vista.

I do have to say that I’m impressed, and I’ve been getting sucked into the marketting more and more as we get closer and closer to Vista. Heck, on my dream machine wish list on Newegg I’ve included the Windows XP Pro disk with the free upgrade to Vista, but my intention is to wait for Vista to launch and add the Home Premium disk to my wish list (Ultimate would be cool, but not for 2x the price).