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AOL starts 4.0 beta testing
News The "Casablanca" beta test is expected to be done in shifts to prevent system overload, officials said.
[January 6, 1998, 10:33]
US Report: Lotus delays start of Notes 5.0 beta testing
News Lotus officials decided this week to delay the public beta of Notes and Domino 5.0--which was due this month--and are now promising it "later in September," according to a company spokesman. The beta preview currently under way was posted to the...
[August 27, 1998, 9:40]
Apple expects users to do their beta testing for them again
Member Review At least while Apple keep messing up and compensating me it's not costing me anything to be part of this ALPHA testing of their new service. Mobile Me was pitched as the most advanced web service ever but it fails to match even what is out there...
[August 1, 2008, 16:26]
Microsoft's dog food diet
News I assume you don't distribute beta software companywide all at once. That's because the software maker has a philosophy known internally as "eating our own dog food", referring to the common practice of running beta, or test, software throughout...
[July 17, 2003, 10:32]
Windows Vista SP2 beta due this week
News The next update to Windows Vista will enter beta testing this week, bringing with it support for Blu-ray drives, among other enhancements. In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft confirmed that a beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2...
[October 27, 2008, 12:43]
UnitedLinux prepares first beta
News UnitedLinux, the project uniting the operating system software of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux, said it will begin beta-testing its new distribution in the next two weeks. The beta-testing programme will roll out in two stages, the...
[August 14, 2002, 13:49]
Windows ME: Available for you in September
News The eight months of beta testing is over. Microsoft also asked testers to hold off from submitting requests to participate in beta testing of future consumer Windows versions, as the company has yet to make public its product intentions in this area.
[June 20, 2000, 8:46]
Windows 2000 - One step nearer to launch?
News The latest sign: Novell has begun beta testing its Windows 2000 client for NetWare servers. Novell's beta parade Novell's Windows 2000 client is only one of several new products that Novell recently has put into beta testing.
[August 12, 1999, 15:10]
Canadian crypto companies beat U.S. export laws
News The company is beta testing a free, advertiser-supported, Web-based email service, which -- unlike established players such as Hotmail and Yahoo! On Monday, start-up Zero Knowledge Systems began beta testing an ambitious system that it says will...
[June 4, 1999, 10:30]
Network Access Protection Platform Architecture
White Papers The Network Access Protection platform in Microsoft Windows Server "Longhorn" (now in beta testing) and Windows Vista (now in beta testing) is a policy enforcement technology that allows third-party software vendors and system integrators to...
[November 22, 2006, 0:00]
Innovative search engine officially goes live
News One of the Web's more unusual search engines, Google, has officially gone live after months of beta testing. Google, which already currently handles around 3.5 million searches each day, has proved a favourite among Web savvy users while in beta...
[September 22, 1999, 10:42]
Day of reckoning for Xbox Live applicants
News Microsoft begins beta testing on Friday of the online service for its Xbox video game console, amid grumbling from thousands of console owners who weren't selected for the trial. A total of 5,000 applicants were notified Tuesday that they had been...
[August 23, 2002, 7:50]
US Report: Service Pack for Win 98 due next week
News As reported Thursday, Service Pack 1 for Windows 98 is slated to go to limited beta testing before the end of this week, that's just one week after Microsoft officially unveiled the new operating system.
[July 3, 1998, 10:09]
'No need to test' Vista beta one
News Companies should check out the new functionality in the first beta of Windows Vista - but most can leave serious testing until the second beta, according to analyst group Gartner. You may wait at least until beta 2, if not longer, before beginning...
[July 27, 2005, 16:50]
Windows Live beta review
Reviews Available for public beta testing at Live.com, this highly customisable service lets you select and access up-to-the-minute news as well as RSS feeds and Gadgets online. Underlying Live.com is the new Windows Live Search, which will eventually...
[March 22, 2006, 16:55]
Suse Linux gives proprietary modules the boot
Talkback The change was actually announced back at the end of 2005 and came into effect when SUSE 10.1 was released for public Beta testing. When I heard about the announcement when I was working on the Beta of SUSE 10.1 in January, I was very worried about...
[August 2, 2006, 11:10]
Microsoft pulls early Office 2003 beta
News Outlook 2003 is expected to be released concurrently with Exchange Server 2003, indicating that product, which also is in late beta testing, is also on track for summer delivery. During the late testing stages of predecessor Office XP, about 500...
[February 20, 2003, 7:32]
O2: iPhone 3G to take enterprise by storm
News Apple's iPhone 3G is poised to take the UK business world by storm, according to O2, which said corporate customers involved in beta testing are very interested in deploying iPhone 2.0. O2 UK's head of business sales, Ben Dowd, told ZDNet.co.uk...
[July 7, 2008, 9:44]
Open Enterprise Server to get February release
News The product's closed beta testing will last through November and then open beta testing will begin, the software maker said on Friday. Novell plans to begin shipping in February its Open Enterprise Server, which combines open source and commercial...
[October 11, 2004, 16:35]
Microsoft testing next version of Exchange
News The new version, code-named E14, is in limited private beta testing as a traditional server product with "a select number" of businesses. But Microsoft also recognised that traditional beta testing wouldn't help it much in getting a sense of the...
[January 14, 2009, 9:12]
