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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx</link><description>Windows Test Manager Paul Donnelly just sent the mail below to Beta testers at connect.microsoft.com , and I was so fascinated with the maps he's generated representing where Windows Beta testers are located, I thought I'd share it with you: I'm sure</description><dc:language /><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458078</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:24:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458078</guid><dc:creator>newscientist2000</dc:creator><description>Thats pretty cool, and explains why all the Microsoft events here in San Diego always fill up so quickly!</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458079</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:25:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458079</guid><dc:creator>Priyajeet</dc:creator><description>Is it just me, or are there really so many people in the middle of the oceans testing vista? :P</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458080</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:33:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458080</guid><dc:creator>Dugie</dc:creator><description>*grins* I also know for a fact there a few dozen pins missing from PNG, Fiji and Vanuatu -- After all, who would want to mess with Vista on a small tropical Island? &amp;nbsp;:)</description></item><item><title>Dugie's Pensieve : Can you see the Aussie Vista Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458083</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:42:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458083</guid><dc:creator>Dugie's Pensieve : Can you see the Aussie Vista Testers?</dc:creator><description>PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.virtualserver.tv/blogs/dugie/archive/2006/09/22/Can_you_see_the_Aussie_Vista_Testers.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.virtualserver.tv/blogs/dugie/archive/2006/09/22/Can_you_see_the_Aussie_Vista_Testers.aspx&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458085</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:08:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458085</guid><dc:creator>BrentRockwood</dc:creator><description>According to the map, you do have a tester in Newfoundland and Labrador. &amp;nbsp;That big island on the right of the Canada East map is the island of Newfoundland and the tester looks to be in the capital of St. Johns.</description></item><item><title>Windows Vista Beta Testers</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458087</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:09:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458087</guid><dc:creator>Jeff Alexander's Weblog</dc:creator><description>Today Dugie pinged me about an interesting post on the Windows Vista Team Blog about where are our Windows...</description></item><item><title>Who's testing Windows Vista?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458090</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:56:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458090</guid><dc:creator>The things that are better left unspoken</dc:creator><description>If you're serious about testing Microsoft products you'll want to be in the Microsoft Connect program</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458114</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:03:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458114</guid><dc:creator>biggy83</dc:creator><description>I'm one of the testers from Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates in the east of middle east area. I happy to be on the map. :)</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458136</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:57:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458136</guid><dc:creator>barlog</dc:creator><description>Yepp :)&lt;br&gt;GUTS n Vamos Vista Team &amp;nbsp;and nwhite !!&lt;br&gt;Regards from Tokyo in JAPAN :)&lt;br&gt;日本は東京から応援しているよ！&lt;br&gt;m(_ _)m&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Vista Beta Testers Mapped Using MapPoint 2006</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458198</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:13:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458198</guid><dc:creator>All Points Blog</dc:creator><description>The Microsoft Vista team proudly offers gif maps of the distribution of beta testers. The maps were created with Microsoft MapPoint 2006. Live Local anyone?&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>4sysops -- Vista goodies</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458247</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:45:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458247</guid><dc:creator>4sysops -- Vista goodies</dc:creator><description>PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://4sysops.com/archives/vista-goodies/"&gt;http://4sysops.com/archives/vista-goodies/&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458291</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:10:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458291</guid><dc:creator>karivika</dc:creator><description>If you want beta testers, just ask me. I'm from Faroe Islands, if you need that information :)&lt;br&gt;I will do what I can to be an active tester *promise*&lt;br&gt;But anyway it should be to late to join now</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458337</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:29:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458337</guid><dc:creator>Nick White</dc:creator><description>Hey karivika: &amp;nbsp;you can certainly join as as a tester of Windows Vista RC1; just go to this link : &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/download-5728.htm"&gt;http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/download-5728.htm&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458339</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:34:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458339</guid><dc:creator>karivika</dc:creator><description>thanks nwhite :)</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458346</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:54:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458346</guid><dc:creator>MauiDan</dc:creator><description>Go Maui! There's another one on this island besides me!</description></item><item><title>Vista update. RC1 is so pass&amp;amp;#233;</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458502</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:23:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458502</guid><dc:creator>James O'Neill's blog </dc:creator><description>There's a post &amp;amp;quot;Interim Windows Vista Build 5728 Released Today&amp;amp;quot; over on the Vista team blog. I've already...</description></item><item><title>Where in the World Are Vista Beta Testers? &amp;raquo; MSBLOG</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458628</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:26:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458628</guid><dc:creator>Where in the World Are Vista Beta Testers? » MSBLOG</dc:creator><description>PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.msblog.org/2006/09/24/where-in-the-world-are-vista-beta-testers/"&gt;http://www.msblog.org/2006/09/24/where-in-the-world-are-vista-beta-testers/&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458728</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:33:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458728</guid><dc:creator>Aj Collins</dc:creator><description>I'm the only one in my town to be a Vista beta tester. It also looks like the the nearest beta tester is 25 miles or so away from me. Pretty cool.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://connect.microsoft.com/SiteImages/27c76060-8838-4279-8b53-efabf5448024.gif"&gt;http://connect.microsoft.com/SiteImages/27c76060-8838-4279-8b53-efabf5448024.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Look for Plymouth, IN. </description></item><item><title>Vista Beta Testers: Where Are You?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#458900</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:41:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:458900</guid><dc:creator>Geeking Microsoft</dc:creator><description>The Windows Vista Team Blog has a post up detailing an email sent to testers by Paul Donnelly wherein...</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#459006</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:00:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:459006</guid><dc:creator>YagiSPN</dc:creator><description>It's cool.&lt;br&gt;I'm Beta tester from Saipan （Northern Mariana Island）.&lt;br&gt;Maybe nobody knows, Saipan is under US Territory...</description></item><item><title>re: Where in the World Are Our Beta Testers?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/21/458075.aspx#459243</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:43:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:459243</guid><dc:creator>wollyka</dc:creator><description>Hello all..&lt;br&gt;I am the one located in Beirut :) the war didn't stop me lol&lt;br&gt;Nice map btw</description></item></channel></rss>