Vince Orgovan: Windows Vista Telemetry
- Posted: Aug 11, 2008 at 10:21 AM
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Windows Vista contains a much improved telemetry system that collects fault data and sends detailed reports to Microsoft that are used in fixing problems that cause apps to hang/crash (of course, this data only reaches us if you choose to send it...).
What have we learned so far? What does Microsoft actually do with crash data? How do crash reports turn into bug fixes that make their way up to Windows Update or, more commonly, into third party application updates?
Meet Vince Orgovan. Vince leads the Windows reliability and analysis team who are tasked with analyzing crash data and isolating problems that cause applications to fault on Windows. Vince is very passionate about quality and his team works tirelessly to isolate problems that lead to crashes. Here, we learn about what we've learned from all the telemetry data we've gathered from Vista and Vince provides insights into the state of health of Vista in the wild. This is a great conversation. Enjoy!
Meet Vince Orgovan. Vince leads the Windows reliability and analysis team who are tasked with analyzing crash data and isolating problems that cause applications to fault on Windows. Vince is very passionate about quality and his team works tirelessly to isolate problems that lead to crashes. Here, we learn about what we've learned from all the telemetry data we've gathered from Vista and Vince provides insights into the state of health of Vista in the wild. This is a great conversation. Enjoy!
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But i think 12 people is a bit low for a part of microsoft that is really really important !
This is a cross-company effort with a lot of automation in place (automated static analysis and bug creation in the right product team's bug database - even assigning bugs to the right developer...).
Keep in mind that many of the application crashes on Windows are not caused by Windows and we work with thrid party developers to ensure rapid fix updates.
It goes without saying how important Vince and team are to Microsoft and our customers. Thank you!!!
C
I like that they can collect information for OEMs and identify different models of machines (great for identifying driver problems because these types of machines all have identical hardware) but unfortunately it probably won't make them decide to stop with the shovelware because crashing usually isn't the problem with this kind of software, it's simply the annoyance of them and how they make the OS look bad even though it's not a component of the OS that's the problem.
In other words, the people at MS are afraid to tell their partners to stop messing up their nice new OS because it will make them look like a big bully when in fact they're just telling the truth.
I think its also because the power of the windows platform is that its open and lets developers empower it.. its a joint effort, but in that there needs to be a joint responsibility for error.. right now windows gets all the blame, the only thing microsoft can do is try and help them be better developers and make less errors.. via this kind of work and making the os more stable etc etc..
Send!
C
As far as Vista stability goes, it has been very good since I started using it during the RC0. I have had two or three blue screens in total during that time.
I agree with Vince that Vista behaves itself nicely. I rarely have a problem at the OS level. Kudos to Microsoft. However, I pretty much always have problems, often relatively benign, with 3rd party drivers and apps. If Vince says his home computers behave themselves he certainly isn't using them as HD HTPCs. Windows is a long way away from being a wife approving HD entertainment platform. I yearn for the day when Windows is as robust as a TIVO. I concede this issue is immensely complicated and no other vendor has done HD HTPC right. I suspect that vendor bundling and open source will lead more quickly to a solution.
What makes you think this will be the case?
C
I think the reason for a single threaded UI is to avoid deadlocks. Usually there are two directions competing in an UI scenario: user input events and gui redraw events. One might create a clever multi-threaded gui but there are too many pitfalls for general purpose usage.
How big is your company and how many people work on pulling crash reports from winqual.microsoft.com?
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