Re: How does one reach the developers of Virtual PC at MS

From: Steve Jain (essjae-No_at_Spam-hotmail.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:37:04 -0800

On 15 Mar 2005 07:48:25 -0800, "Len" <spam@md-jobs.com> wrote:

>I recently read in a Mac Magazine that Microsoft has a team of
>developers who put together and are working hard to perfect virtual PC
>for the mac.
VPC will never be perfect, just like OS X will never be perfect. They
are complex pieces of software that continually evolve.

>
>I have had so many programs that won't run on the software that I am
>regretting the investment I made in the new MS Office suite in order to
>get Virtual PC. I waited for months while they finished development
>and finally shipped it only to find it with many many bugs.
have you posted the problems here or contacted MS support? That is
your first step. Many common issues are discussed here, as well as
work-arounds and alternatives.

>
>Anyone have a name and address that I can contact to report and help
>them fix the ongoing problems?
If you found, or think you've found a bug, you should contact MS
support, they log all bugs and report them to the developers.
Developers that have public email addresses would get very little
deveopling done, since they'd get so much spammed email from every VPC
user who needed to speak directly to the developer.

>
>I have been treated to the microsoft automatic error sender whenever
>something crashes for a couple of months now. I haven't been able to
>furnish technical data to Garmin (to name one) or any of the other
>developers of individual software to allow them to look at it from
>their side. All of these programs won't work on Virtual PC for mac
>with XP Pro, but work fine on a PC laptop running the same XP pro.
>
>Len 

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