Xbox Alpha Update teaches a lesson to create early -hand updates

Xbox Alpha Testing Group members, the users who try out the upcoming updates before going live for everyone, were surprised to find out this week that Alpha’s most destroying update is a little more destructive than it just doesn’t work. Sometimes it happens that one of these updates is not fully aware of one of its new features, which is still in testing, but this is not quite so with the most update. This is actually resetting the entire Xbox to factory settings, essentially deleting everything from the console.

The members of the Insider test group included their Xbox consoles, both Series S and Series X, and were faced with a rather short message “There was a problem with the update”.

This message was then shared by internal tests of social media sites such as Reddit, confirming that this is not an individual problem. There were corrections as an attempt to install a larger firmware or simply avoid this update completely, but it cannot be done long after the update. Fortunately, as Xbox is retreating, saving in a cloud, the most that will be lost, were screen and video capture, stored locally and a very lost time recharging everything.

In addition, it is a type of early access program for new updates. Most of the updates are good, but they are essentially just crash tests to make sure that things are hungry before they go to people who have not registered for unstable updates. In this sense, it is even a successful update to buggy because it allows Microsoft to burn problem areas.

But every software engineer and nightmare of programmers, the type of something that cheered them at night in cold sweat: what if something is pushed and has catastrophic effects? Unfortunately, this really cannot be avoided for sure. The software must be tested in the end and, as prepared as a team, before pushing it to the first tester group, there will always be unpredictable variables.

An important lesson that should be known is how the public acceptance is from this dynamic. In this case, people registered to be part of this program, fully understanding that it was unstable at best. But for a wider audience? This is absolutely not flying. Armed with this information, high pressure can be left aside.

But if you are in the internal program, maybe wait a while before updating your Xbox.