Microsoft's Insider program seems to be quite successful and so the company has launched many different Insider programs for its core products in recent years.
It all started with the introduction of Windows 10 Insider. With this program, companies, administrators and interested users who wished to participate in the program could test the beta versions of the operating system before the final version.
Microsoft thereby achieved two distinct things: it opened development to the public, at least to some extent, and it got its hands on the valuable data from Insiders' PCs, which helped her catch some bugs before the official release.
Participants are encouraged to submit comments, or suggestions, but critics say Microsoft is not listening enough. Microsoft, on the other hand, claims that it values feedback and uses it to improve features or change operating system features.
Microsoft later introduced more Insider programs for other company products. The Microsoft Office, the Bing search engine, the new program tourς Microsoft Edge που βασίζεται στο Chromium, το λογισμικό επικοινωνίας Skype, το περιβάλλον ανάπτυξης Visual Studio Code and Xbox now each have an Insider program.
For all the above, the company has prepared a new Hub that describes the available Insider programs on one page.
Each program is listed with a brief description and a link to the actual website of the program.
The new Hub offers minimal functionality. Of course it offers an overview of all the programs available in Insider.
So because the company is trying to make it very tempting, we have to mention that the Insiders are essentially the testers of the company. If you agree to the terms of the program, you will share much more telemetry data with Microsoft than standard users of a "final" version.
It is best not to participate in Insider Programs through systems you use in your work, or have valuable data stored, as the software, or operating system of those programs, is still under development.
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