In a message dated 10/18/2000 7:27:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< >     Hey! Wadda u mean, Larry?  You get to BUY betas to test with
 Micro$oft!
 > And then buy it again (it's now "the product") and do it again!  Why buy
 the
 > same product only once?  Capitalism to the extreme [the wrong extreme that
 > is].  -Gary-
 
 Wait a minute there Gary---I thought Micsrosoft only sold Beta software!
 
 --Greg Stewart, MCP  :-)
 
10/20  They DO.  That's the point. But you knew that.  -Gary-
 
 > In a message dated 10/18/2000 12:13:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 >
 > <<
 >  One of the things I see regularly is people's unfamiliarity with
 >  beta-test software, both in terms of expectations and interpretations.  I
 >  guess it is pretty unique for most people working in Windows to see true
 >  beta-apps with all their trace code, dead code, etc. still hanging inside
 >  them.  With Windows you get to beta-test after you buy it and the bloat
 >  there is more a matter of programming taste than anything else.
 >
 >   >>
  >>

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