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Inside the Windows Insider Program
- 1. Inside the Windows Insider Program Bill Karagounis Director of Program Management, Windows Insider Program & OS Fundamentals @billkar44 November 2016
- 2. The beginning Windows 10 and Insider Program Announced First Preview Build Feb 2014 9/21/2014 May 20149/30/14 10/1/14 Windows Insider/OS Flighting investigation green lit First Insider Program Plans Presented Terry Myerson (Windows and Devices team Exec VP) expands to “Everyone” Panic Ensues, Rebuild entire Feedback stack to scale
- 3. The Windows Insider Program today From our recent Insider survey: • 46% are in IT, SW Development, or Engineering • 13% of Insiders support small companies (<4 PCs) • 14% of Insiders support large companies (>5K PCs) • 20% are Students (and 1/5 of those in high school!) • 88% helped upgrade people to Windows 10 • 9 in 10 satisfied with Windows Insider Program
- 4. Why Insiders? Long History of Beta Programs Complexity 8.5M Unique Devices 21.2M Unique Apps [N] Configuration Options Latency By the time people saw our work, it was too late to give feedback Easily exceeds the number of atoms in the observable universe (Fortunately in the real world these things tend to cluster, but it’s still a big set)
- 5. 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 (10240) Windows 10 (10586) Windows 10 (14xxx) Development Days Delta Start-First Public Delta First Public-RTM Delta RTM-GA 15 public PC previews and 7 Mobile previews before launch 2 public previews 3 public previews 1 public preview 6 public PC previews and 6 Mobile previews before launch 29 public PC previews and 28 Mobile previews Windows Development in the open
- 7. New builds and delivery systems Windows Insiders New feedback Aggressively pushing builds. Insiders get to run the latest product and tell us what they think. Monitor user feedback to understand quality in real-world scenarios. W A A S
- 8. Microsoft Confidential Release Preview Release Preview “Released” OS App Flights, Drivers Ring Theory Canary Daily builds Windows & Devices Group ~3 per week (rest of) Microsoft Once validated by WIP Fast ring Windows Insiders – Fast ~Weekly Selfhost MicrosoftWindows Insiders Fast Canary Windows Insiders Slow Windows Insiders - Slow Once validated by Windows Insiders – Fast ring
- 10. Weekly Cadence (roughly…) Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Final code check-ins Build ready Flight to Canary ring Selfhost FlightOps: Push to Insiders? FlightOps: Health check/ trends/issues WIP Fast FlightOps: Push to Selfhost ring? C C C C CC C S S SS FlightOps: Post flight check-in
- 11. What is Mission Control? • One-stop shop for Windows As A Service views • Central control for pre-release flighting • Operations Dashboard and Incident management
- 12. Mission Control - upgrade • Updates and velocity of updates are important to us • Look for upgrade blockers or issues with Insiders being able to move forward
- 13. Mission Control – Measure View
- 14. Mission Control - Services
- 16. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- If you look at the history of Windows releases. Talk through the shape of windows 10 being different. The shape of the engineering cycle looked very different You can see that we continue to compress that timeline for releases to give you the opportunity to give us more feedback going forward. Note: We have not gone a single month without an Insider Preview since December 2014.