Originally Posted by mixture
And what sort of muppets do a production rollout without testing it first ?
Testing print functionality prior to a rollout seems to be a bit of a no-brainer in the scenario you propose !
Clearly you dont work in an enterprise IT environment
There is thousands of bits of software to be tested, over tens of thousands of computers. A rollout of a new OS en masse across a large enterprise organisation is no simple task. Sometimes, things get overlooked. Sure, we could spend a couple of hundred million doing full system testing of everything, but interestingly enough sometimes you still miss things... Let me know when you are perfect.
BTW, its our software, not the clients and we have never tested it on win 7 as we have never had the requirement. Now the client wants to run it on Win 7, we have upgraded the software and fully tested on Win 7. This week it will be tested on win 8 and win 8.1, even though we have no need to do so just yet. Now I have not checked MSDN yet, but there is a rumour win 9 beta is due out in a couple of months, and I will probably also restest on that too. Happy?