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To: taxman who wrote (16260)	2/17/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: Dave Budde	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Means it's time to buy a Mac.

To: taxman who wrote (16260)	2/17/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

what is the significance of this? I don't think softy, or for that matter anyone else, has ever put out a "beta" version that wasn't buggy. That's why it is a "beta" version.

To: taxman who wrote (16260)	2/17/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Ohhhh, Taxman you bad bad person! Dont you know you are not suppose to put bad news about MSFT on this board. The Lemmings will get on your case for it. This board is only here to promote MSFT and its stock! Now go away and dont come back until you have some good MSFT news. In this channel - we hear no evil and see no evil! Toy ;)

To: taxman who wrote (16260)	2/17/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Taxman, it means it's not ready yet. Beta releases are for customers to try it out and feed back to Microsoft about problems and wish-to-haves. They are not supposed to be production ready (but shouldn't be too buggy either). If you want to read more about it yourself, a clip from a post I put on Intel today: How about Windows 2000? Pretty good article about it in this week's Business Week. Also reasonable overview on computing in general for the non-technical observer. Back to Win2000, article says the top project manager in charge says he gets at least a couple of emails from Gates every day saying 'don't ship it before it's time.' (wine commercial?). Tony