Pumpiron579
20th July 2007, 04:14 AM
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 this, my response tends to be, “They don’t call it dogfood because it tastes good.” We dogfood (it’s a verb too :-) to find bugs. Better it be unstable for us than for you….
Here is the whole article
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2007/05/04/dogfood-doesn-t-always-taste-good.aspx
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 this, my response tends to be, “They don’t call it dogfood because it tastes good.” We dogfood (it’s a verb too :-) to find bugs. Better it be unstable for us than for you….
Here is the whole article
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2007/05/04/dogfood-doesn-t-always-taste-good.aspx