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Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE

Posted by kdawson on from the think-of-the-developers dept.

Ricky writes "Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds of Internet Explorer — or at least something more frequent than months-to-years. Ars talks with Microsoft's general manager for IE, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. Not a great idea."

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  1. Re:good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your eyes... is that moisture?

  2. Re:Agile isn't the only legitimate way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I like to compare it to taking a shit versus rubbing a quick one off.

    Microsoft saves up the feces, and savors it in their intestines for months and years. That lets it get really stinky and, well, shitty. Then, in one big blast, they crap it out all over everybody. That's just their way.

    The open source community prefers to rub a quick one off each night. Rub rub rub and the load has been blown.

    So it all depends on what you prefer. Would you rather get nightly blasts of jizm in your face, or would you prefer huge, steaming logs every year or so?

  3. OMG My Eyes! by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny

    The nightlies of Microsoft Bob basically killed all positive hype for the program. I don't want to see Microsoft Bob in nighties! It was bad enough seeing Bill Gates wiggling his ass for the cameras.

    Oh, nightlies ...

    I'll have to ask Clippy for linux and get back to you on that ...

    1. Re:OMG My Eyes! by clone53421 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't want to see Microsoft Bob in nighties!

      Hey... be thankful he wasn’t nude, like Clippy was...

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  4. Re:Who is Many? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many believe this was a random baseless comment.

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    Can bees think? A new study indicates that no, they cannot.

  6. Re:Maybe it takes more than a day to build it? by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Microsoft build labs has been described in many books but one thing that stood out to me was the alleged fact that most builds, like Windows, take well over 24 hours to finish.

    Well, there's yer problem... The are probably running their build server on windows. Now if they ran a nice Linux build server...

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  7. Re:Confused about article, any developers here? by stephanruby · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hopefully, tomorrow's snapshot of the same article will be better.