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Windows Vs Linux: Duelling Betas Launch
News Software testers are going to be busy in the next few weeks as new Windows and Linux betas make their way into the marketplace. He said later betas will include more of the visual design and other changes planned for Whistler.
[November 1, 2000, 8:21]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Comment MS stated that earlier Betas of SP3 required to be uninstalled before installing subsequent versions, ans also that SP3 should be applied to a fully patched system. In some cases, SP3 has been been applied progressively through the Betas and...
[June 17, 2008, 15:19]
Questions Raised About Win 2000 File System
News But if customers decide mid-stream not to migrate, or have their Windows 2000 betas expire before they've moved completely over to Windows 2000, problems can and do arise. For customers migrating from previous versions of NT to Windows 2000, the...
[November 25, 1999, 12:08]
Standalone IE 6 Closer To Public Beta
News Instead, the company has made "technical" IE 6 betas available to a subset of testers via integrated beta releases of its Windows XP client operating system. Final versions of both Windows XP and IE 6 are scheduled to be commercially available...
[February 28, 2001, 10:02]
Second Beta Of Visual J# Released
News During the long gestation of Visual Studio .Net, many Visual Basic developers expected to do productive work with the betas, and were daunted by early and not-fully-functional versions of upgrade tools.
[March 20, 2002, 10:48]
.Net Gets Close To Fruition
News Microsoft said it is so assured of the quality of these betas that it will sell beta customers an ASP .Net Go Live licence that allows them to deploy applications in production environments. After some initial hiccups, Microsoft has delivered...
[July 4, 2001, 11:28]
New Office Beta To Launch Next Week
News Besides Office 2003 Professional, which includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access, Microsoft also will offer betas of the FrontPage Web site creation and management application, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook with Business Contact Manager...
[March 5, 2003, 7:43]
Virus Writers Use 'open Source' Methods
News McAfee said that malware now has a long-term development lifecycle, with code being developed, bugs being fixed, and betas then final versions being distributed amongst the malware community in a similar way to open source communities.
[July 17, 2006, 12:50]
Visual Studio And SQL Server Betas Miss Deadline
News Microsoft is holding off on releasing the latest betas to ensure the products are stable enough to build and run production applications, a company representative said on Friday. Microsoft has missed its deadline for sending out the latest test...
[April 12, 2005, 14:45]
Microsoft Claims Windows Server 2008 'milestone'
News According to the company, the reason for the move is straightforward: after three betas, Windows Server 2008 has all the features that it needs, but the product itself is not quite ready for release-candidate status.
[September 25, 2007, 13:43]
Bartercard Disappointed With Vista And Office 07 Betas
News Bartercard's chief information officer Jason Van said his team tested both betas for four weeks using Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Global trade exchange Bartercard may be an all-Microsoft shop, but the company is far from convinced of the...
[July 26, 2006, 16:10]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Comment In some cases, SP3 has been been applied progressively through the Betas and Release Candidates (without being uninstalled in most cases). The "virgin" install I'm talking about, a SP1 with SP2 slip-stream, didn't have all the downloaded and prior...
[June 18, 2008, 9:25]
Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 CTP#1 & CTP#2
Blog Comment Unfortunately I have to work for a living and I don't get to play with Betas for pay like the journalist types! The Express version has some interesting features but I know that the most interesting parts of VS2008 are probably in the Pro or...
[August 22, 2008, 4:53]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback Now, I'm using betas and DBs of OOo 2.0, and my MSO CDs are gathering dust in a closet. However, when 1.1 came out and I had to type dozens of pages of reports with styles and formats not being destroyed from one session to another, then I found...
[October 9, 2005, 13:55]
MS Goes To Mars For IE Update
News Beta testers who have offered Microsoft feedback on betas of IE 5.x have been expecting the first beta drop of Mars for the past several months. Microsoft seems to be rethinking its entire Windows road map, including plans for future versions of...
[February 1, 2000, 8:29]
Microsoft Security: Not A Patch On What's Needed
Leader The company is happy to circulate own-risk betas of operating systems and applications; it should accept the same model for its security updates. What Microsoft should do in the future is to make early versions of the patch available as soon as it...
[January 5, 2006, 14:20]
Symantec Releases Public Norton 2009 Betas
News The public betas are available on the Symantec site. For example, previous versions of Norton Internet Security contained multiple copies of the antivirus signature database. On Monday, Symantec opened two of its Norton 2009 products to public beta.
[July 16, 2008, 10:27]
Today's Vista Launch Is Just The Beginning
News This review of Vista, after the code was released to manufacturing, shows that Microsoft has made progress since those early betas. Analysts at Gartner have calculated that it will take an enterprise around 18 months to conduct a migration to Vista...
[November 30, 2006, 10:01]
WindowsMe - And Don't Forget The IE!
News As reported by ZDNet News, the latest betas include a beta version of Microsoft's newly released Windows Media Player 7. All versions of Windows post-WindowsMe will be built on the NT kernel. Microsoft testers can expect the next milestone next...
[April 10, 2000, 9:24]
Microsoft To Debut Developer Tools
News They said the beta version was one of the most stable betas from Microsoft. Analysts and Microsoft customers have been impressed with test versions of Visual Studio.Net, saying it makes it much easier to build Web-based software than current...
[February 13, 2002, 12:32]
