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Windows Vista & IE7 Beta 1 Released
gdsotirov writes "Today on the IE blog the availability of two new beta tests - Windows Vista Beta 1 and Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 - was announced. These tests are mainly targeted to developers and IT professionals. Thus the betas are only available to MSDN subscribers. Tom's Hardware has details as well." From the article: "While the code also includes an early look at the new user-interface design, the majority of end-user features in Windows Vista will not be included until Beta 2. In addition to these fundamentals, Windows Vista Beta 1 also includes the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 built into the platform. The technical Beta of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 also is available today." Any early thoughts, MSDN subscribers?
It seems to be getting zero buzz because Microsoft seemingly hasn't spent any money hyping it. So the question to ask, is why not?
My guess is that they are afraid it is riddled with bugs. Beta releases usually are. They want to quietly get it beta tested and fix all the bugs and the holes without too many people saying, in public, that it sucks. If the first impression is a bad one, it is very hard to recover from that. They are finally learning that early hype can backfire.
What a Sysiphian task it must be to produce a new OS that must be backwards compatible with all those old apps running on old versions of Windows. It's hard to imagine having any success at all after handicapping yourself so much.
It almost makes me feel sorry for them... almost.
Computer science has NOTHING to do with what language you express your ideas in.
And because you think that shows you don't truly understand what computer science is and therefor are reinforcing my point.
Computer science is about compilers and sorting, matching and transforming, storing and indexing, etc, etc.
It isn't about which generics operator is the best, or how "synergetic" the latest hyped up super language is.
Tom
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