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On Alphas And Betas
Blog I mention all of this because it seems to me that in some cases, the "Alpha" and "Beta" designations are being misused, or misunderstood, or just plain ignored. There is no mention of a special means or place to report problems.
[September 10, 2008, 14:59]
Apple Expo: Attacks On Intel But Hugs For Microsoft
News But the mere mention of Microsoft caused a murmur of scorn to run through the packed auditorium, despite the fact that Apple's former arch-rival is now a major investor in the company. Microsoft also has a sizeable pavilion at the expo, solely to...
[September 14, 2000, 13:59]
Skype Pursuing "Unarticulated Needs"
Blog Comment The new president that you mention, Josh Silverman, came on board some six months ago with the same old statements about how great Skype is, and how much greater it will become, and how much they love their users.and what has happened since then?
[August 2, 2008, 7:42]
Major Firefox Release Delayed
News You won't see many occasions where we mention release dates because we know it's risky to mention them," said Nitot. The Mozilla Foundation is planning to release a beta version of Firefox 1.5 in August, and has said the final version will be out...
[July 21, 2005, 17:45]
MSN 7.0 Beta Not Smiling About Smilies
News The company did not mention what the potential issues were. Microsoft is set to release a beta version next week in the US, UK and some parts of Europe, but will exclude the winks feature while it researches the problem.
[October 7, 2004, 18:30]
Skype Pursuing "Unarticulated Needs"
Blog Comment The 4.0 gold release will address the articulated needs you rightfully mention beg to be solved, as well as the unarticulated rich communication needs of our rapidly growing community. We are releasing three beta versions precisely because we want...
[August 5, 2008, 9:36]
Microsoft Readies VoIP Software Beta
News Kerravala said he sees communications being embedded in a slew of other applications from wikis to blogs to podcasts, not to mention the vast array of business applications. Microsoft is staging the long-awaited coming-out party for its IP...
[March 7, 2007, 7:27]
ATI Suffers Wrath Of Jobs
News In addition, a Pricing and Configuration Reference Card being used by Apple-badged employees in the company's booth shows that while Apple was originally planning on offering the ATI Radeon graphics card as an "Option available at the Online Apple...
[July 24, 2000, 8:22]
Windows 7 Heads To Netbooks As Well As PCs
News Sinofsky did mention a "release candidate to RTM phase", suggesting that Microsoft is only planning a single beta. Microsoft did not offer new details as to when customers will be able to purchase Windows 7, beyond saying that a feature-complete...
[November 6, 2008, 14:55]
Windows 2000 SP4 Leaks On Web
News However, so far, there is no mention of it on Microsoft's site apart from the existence of the 129MB file, and Microsoft itself seemed confused on Thursday morning about the download. A beta version of SP4 has been available to testers since...
[June 26, 2003, 12:54]
Hey! You! Get Off Of My Cloud!
Blog Amongst all the talk of 3 million users in 6 months there is no mention of when the site will come out of test and when users can expect full service delivery without the errors (of which I have had two already).
[August 20, 2008, 9:45]
Symantec, Windows Users Beset By Vista SP1 Flaws
News Symantec made no explicit mention of Network Access Control drivers in an email response to ZDNet.co.uk. The next upcoming maintenance release of Symantec Endpoint Protection, which is currently with beta customers and due to be available for...
[March 20, 2008, 15:44]
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended: A First Look review
Reviews A company could, for example, find every accidental mention of a Social Security number or top-secret product being developed and black out the potential leaks from a PDF with one blow. Integrating with Acrobat 9 is Adobe's beta release of an...
[June 13, 2008, 8:47]
IPhone Insecurity review
Reviews Apple forgot to mention David Maynor and Johnny Cache. While the incentive to exploit these exists today (to give Apple a black eye, not to mention wreak havoc on the Apple community), there's much greater financial incentive in waiting to go after...
[June 27, 2007, 16:14]
The Luncher
News Just don't mention Jerry Sanders. There was also that thing with the sci-fi writer Asimov at the same time where they used his name in a beta programme. Timex will release a new version of its hefty Data Link 'smart watch' late this year or early...
[March 28, 1998, 6:00]
My Chrome Honeymoon Is Over...
Blog Comment Although they were not the primary reason that I gave up on Chrome (the constant fiddling around on the internet, even when Chrome itself wasn't running was my reason), I certainly did see the two big problems that you mention as well:
[September 8, 2008, 15:34]
Windows Vista December CTP review
Reviews Vista promises better search that will hopefully match or exceed the search functionality already available through Mac OS Tiger's Spotlight and SUSE Linux's Beagle, not to mention the free Google Desktop Search utility that you can use with...
[December 20, 2005, 8:55]
The 'fastest Browser On Earth'?
News Microsoft unveiled for press and analysts its Microsoft.Net roadmap, with hardly a mention of the word "browser. Opera 4.0 for Windows has been in beta since March. Features that Kjeller, Norway-based Opera Software is touting as part of its latest...
[June 27, 2000, 10:03]
Mandriva Aims For The Enterprise
News More recently it has faced increased competition with Suse Linux's acquisition by Novell and Red Hat's continuing growth, not to mention a new version of Windows coming on the horizon. We tested this on about 300 beta testers, and incorporated that...
[September 20, 2006, 14:00]
Real-Apple: Can You Say Monopoly?
News He didn't mention US or European availability of the device. RealServer 8 and the related RealProducer 8 platforms are in alpha and beta test, respectively, and due to go 'gold' in the second half of this year.
[June 13, 2000, 9:13]
