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Xbox Alpha update teaches a lesson about creating early-adopting updates

An insider alpha update on the Xbox resets the console back to factory settings and is a lesson for software engineers going forward.

This message was then shared by insider testing members on social media sites like Reddit, confirming that it was not an individual issue. Thankfully, since the Xbox backs up saves to a cloud, the most that would be lost were screenshot and video captures kept locally and a lot of wasted time redownloading everything. But it is every software engineer and programmers’ nightmare, the kind of thing that jolts them awake at night in a cold sweat: what if something is pushed out and it has catastrophic effects?

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