It was almost two years ago when we've started the Zet Universe Insider Preview program. We've shipped more than 20 builds in the first year, between July 2015 and May 2016. We've received a lot of amazing feedback, thanks to you, and we've been encouraged to keep working on the product, all thanks to you, our Insiders!
Our goal for the milestone we've started working on last Fall is to bring a reliable, high-quality version of Zet Universe for you. As you already have noticed, we've stopped shipping new builds since mid-2016. This time, however, we will disable the associated web services that support Insider Preview builds of Zet Universe.
Our goal for the milestone we've started working on last Fall is to bring a reliable, high-quality version of Zet Universe for you. As you already have noticed, we've stopped shipping new builds since mid-2016. This time, however, we will disable the associated web services that support Insider Preview builds of Zet Universe.
THE OTHER 90% OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT
As our mentor, Skip Walter (Chief Product Officer @ FTI Consulting, Inc.) likes to say, there's a difference between the prototype and the actual product.
"It's one of the fundamental challenges in new product, balancing the drive for ever more useful functionality for customers with the need to have a very high quality product." Indeed, thanks to all the feedback we've got over the last year and half, it's now time for the next 90% of the software development effort - RAAMPUSS:
RAAMPUSS is an acronym that is a short hand for eight aspects of a quality product:
This is the set of our high-level requirements for the next version of Zet Universe, internally called v3, and we are putting all of our energy into this milestone. This also means we'll have to disable the associated web services that support Insider Preview bits.
"It's one of the fundamental challenges in new product, balancing the drive for ever more useful functionality for customers with the need to have a very high quality product." Indeed, thanks to all the feedback we've got over the last year and half, it's now time for the next 90% of the software development effort - RAAMPUSS:
RAAMPUSS is an acronym that is a short hand for eight aspects of a quality product:
- Reliability
- Availability
- Adminstratability
- Maintainability
- Performance
- Usability
- Scalability
- Security
This is the set of our high-level requirements for the next version of Zet Universe, internally called v3, and we are putting all of our energy into this milestone. This also means we'll have to disable the associated web services that support Insider Preview bits.
USING ZET UNIVERSE INSIDER PREVIEW AFTER 2/25
What will keep working
The good news are, you'll still be able to run your builds of Insider Preview after February 25, but only after changing your settings file like this:
What will stop working
Several things:
The good news are, you'll still be able to run your builds of Insider Preview after February 25, but only after changing your settings file like this:
- Exit Zet Universe Insider Preview (right click on its icon in system notifications area on taskbar and choose Exit)
- Go to %appdata%\Zet\
- Find user.v2.settings file
- Open it in Notepad (or any other plain text editor)
- Find line AppMode=0, and
- Change it to 1 (AppMode=1)
- Save file
- Run Zet Universe Insider Preview
What will stop working
Several things:
- Updates - you will no longer be able to download the updates to Zet Universe Insider Preview after February 25, 2017
- Download the setup - you will no longer be able to download setup.exe of Zet Universe Insider Preview after February 25, 2017
- Receive "unread" notifications from Dropbox plugin for files from Dropbox in your Zet Universe Insider Preview project after February 25, 2017
We want to say thank you for your support in this journey, and we are looking forward to see you with us once we'll ship the new bits of Zet Universe v3 later this year.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!