Talk:Winqual

Anybody?
I looked up this article because this "Winqual", whatever it is, offered to install itself on my Windows 7 system as a Windows Update.

Unfortunately, this stub seems to have been cut and pasted from one of MS's developer pages and is virtually unreadable by non-techheads. I'm a technical writer, and even I'd have to spend several minutes on it just to start understanding what it's about.

It'd be great if someone would write a translation for "normal" people. (If only I had the time...) I'm sure many people are wondering what this app is and whether or not they should install it. SomeAvailableName (talk) 20:19, 30 October 2011 (UTC)


 * It's an online web service offered by Microsoft (IE only) that lets independent software vendors view and download information about their application's crashes. I have never used it, but that is just what I gather from reading about it.. I don't know of anything that would be installed to your machine through Windows Update. Gamerman2360 (talk) 02:06, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * It's offered to me as an optional update in Windows Update (Win7 64bit). Your explanation sounds good, but I'd like to have a confirmation before installing it.Pike84 (talk) 23:52, 25 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Winqual is dead people! Now with the release of Windows 8 coming they overhauled it and and it's now at http://sysdev.microsoft.com68.149.175.120 (talk) 00:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Windows Dev Center
It seems that the successor of Winqual, Windows Dev Center, is also dead. The link of Reference 2 does not work. 5.158.162.136 (talk) 15:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

All the links were pointing to the HCL (Hardware Compatability Labs) test kit docs, which are very much alive, but unrelated to the topic or error reporting for applications. I am thus reaching out to peers at Microsoft to get a better pointer, since the WER metrics are still gathered and still get published, so the WER is live, but not known about in the community. I'm an intermittent editor, so I hope to come back with answer before 2020 Zaphodikus (talk) 11:57, 23 September 2019 (UTC)