I was being facetious. There was another post around here alluding to the kewlness of running on betas. <
Well, betas aren't what they used to be. You used to get in serious trouble for sharing a beta. "Open betas" are a different animal. Open Source Betas are generally stable, feature-complete, and in need of general audience testing. SOme are less stable than others. Some keep their product in beta for years. Some consider a version-dot-zero milestone to be the end of a beta cycle. The term is losing its meaning. M$ betas seem to run the gamut. Some are purely marketing tools, shipped in an attempt to raise some buzz about an upcoming product. Some are obviously test balloons, where M$ states that features are not finalized. What's the point in that? Even more interesting is when M$ responds to criticism of a beta by announcing they are going to change features, sometimes in a pretty major way. In that case, the previous "beta" wasn't even a beta, it was a feature-incomplete alpha!
We tend to forget that the 13-30 year-olds know everything <G> <
Perhaps as we get older we fail to appreciate what we once knew. Thirty? I'm not sure I trust anyone over thirty. On 8/3/06, Hal Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=> -----Original Message----- => From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche => Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 17:43 => To: [email protected] => Subject: Re: [NF[ NeoOffice to charge for 1st month's access => to beta program! => => On 8/2/06, Hal Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => > => > Having a safe piece of software is so "old-school." => > => => And by "safe" you mean, MS Office 2007 beta? => => -- => => Ted Roche No, safe software is like SP2 or SP3 of whatever product you are referring to. I was being facetious. There was another post around here alluding to the kewlness of running on betas. We tend to forget that the 13-30 year-olds know everything <G> HALinNY
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