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To: jim shiau who wrote (17166)	3/3/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Respond to of 74651

No Jim, its not normal practice for a software company to release SP Betas (this is MSFT's 2nd beta of Win98 SP1). Novell just released SP1 of NetWare 5. No Betas! Look at even MSFT's history of patches. Even they have not released SP Betas. MSFT is starting this practice to cover up there inability to write clean code (even if its the SPs). They have been burned so many times with NT SPs causing more troubles than they solved that they called upon their Marketing Team to come up with an answer to their development team's inabilities. "Lets just call the SP's BETAs and then if/when they fail - we could tell the customer that it was a BETA after all - what do you expect". Come on Jim, look at the software industry and honestly tell me how many companies release SP betas? Toy