PCMag visited Microsoft’s offices in Redmond last week, and we not only got an beforehand briefing on Internet Explorer 9, but we also got a tour of the Internet Explorer Testing Labs. Partner Test Manager Jason Upton took a baby group of tech journalists through the facility housed in Microsoft’s Building 50, area we were treated to many impressive sights.
Upton compared the capability to finding rarefied baseball stats like “how left handed hitters do against right-handed pitchers during night amateur when the wind is blowing from the North.” Except in Microsoft’s case, it’d be more like finding how 2-GHz AMD 64 PC’s with 1MB of DDR2 RAM running Vista SP1 and IE7 perform. The lab’s vast resources let Microsoft configure its browser testing to appraise very intricate slices of data. For instance, the lab holds 948 PCs and 119 servers each individually configurable through an automation system.
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