> I do question if the testing they will get in > house will be as effective as a large number > of outside testers. There will be beta tests > of components but not of the really half done > things that have been released to bets before.
But nothing is "half done". The stuff that wasn't delivered to the developers last week is "done", it just wasn't in the build that we got. Everything was demoed and is operational already. I'd characterize what they're doing now as tweaking rather than coding. So, it appears that there will be plenty of time for the very large number of beta users to work on everything. Win7's development cycle is very, very different from Vista's. As anecdotal evidence of this, I am now using Win7 as my primary OS. I could *never* have done that with the first version of Vista that we got. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
