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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:Obvious... by hansamurai · · Score: 3, Informative

    The nightlies of Microsoft Bob basically killed all positive hype for the program.

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    Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
  2. Re:Normal by dingen · · Score: 4, Informative

    WTF? Most companies don't release nightly builds of their software.

    Not when it comes to web browsers. You can get nightlies from every single other major browser, except for IE.

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    Pretty good is actually pretty bad.