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Old 15-07-2011, 21:00   #600
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Re: Superhub Firmware Beta Test

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Originally Posted by Helix View Post
I don't get what that the business about them receiving the firmware last week was. Surely the firmware should be developed with VM engineers involved and testing as it goes along, rather than providing a download for VM to test and then they find bugs and the firmware developers have to fix it and then send another update to VM.

Seems to be a very bizarre way of developing this, but then the whole process has already shown that VM/Netgear know nothing about software development.
It's fairly standard. Whoever's got the contract to develop the software provides occasional 'code drops' for the customer to try out and report back on. Maybe this hasn't happened often enough in this case; but why should VM spend staff time on a process that they're paying someone else to provide.
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