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MS: Beta Software Good Enough for Production Use

Posted by timothy on from the not-like-they-indemnify-you-for-damages-anyhow dept.

RMX writes "CNet is reporting that Microsoft is starting to license test software for real-world use . In particular, Visual Studio 2005 and the April "community technology preview" of SQL Server 2005 are both supposed to be released sometime in the second half of the year. But Microsoft is claiming the pre-release versions are stable already, so they're licensing the pre-released versions on the grounds that they 'are already suitable for running production business applications.'"

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  1. FIRIEST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    biches

  2. Sh17 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    conducted at MIT any doubt: FreeBSD hear yoU. Also, if need to join the

  3. Re:Safe = We want our money early by klipsch_gmx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    since when does the stock being flat mean that the profits are on decline?

    Since..ever?

    The price of a stock is a valuation of future growth. If profits are thought to be flat or declining, so will the stock price. This book will give you more details. Highly recommended.

  4. Are you on drugs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >>You can't even say that about Microsoft's production software let alone beta software.

    Ya right. Their production software was good enough to power thousands and thousands of companies (both big and small) through the largest economic boom in the history of the U.S. Can't say that for Linux, or Apple. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.