Dogfood Doesn't Always Taste Good

posted by  winmob (11)  19 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

A while back someone asked which phones the Windows Mobile team uses.  While I will end up answering that question, in typical form, I’m going to be really verbose about it.

In Windows Mobile, we’re very strong proponents of what we call, “Eating our own dogfood.”  What this means is that we use the code we’re developing on our primary phones.  If you’ve ever been on a “Beta test,” you know that beta code isn’t always very stable or bug free.  Well, we frequently use builds that aren’t even up to beta quality.  When internal people complain about thi