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Tech: Microsoft releases WIndows XP Beta 2

updated 06:30 pm EST, Mon March 26, 2001

 
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Evening tech news: Following the release of Mac OS X this past weekend, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has countered with the release of Windows XP Beta 2; a study released by Excite@Home indicates that broadband customers take greater advantage of bandwidth-intensive applications they used when they were on a dial-up connection; Aiwa, a Japanese-based electronics firm majority owned by Sony Corporation, has announced plans to cut its work force in half and shut down all but one of its nine factories; and chipmaker LSI Logic Corporation has announced plans to buy digital video and audio chipmaker C-Cube for $878 million in stock to strengthen its multimedia and entertainment business.


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    Gates must be concerned

    Gates must be worried about OS X if he bothered to release XP Beta 2 at the same time to try to distract people.

    My guess is, he'll try to make sure that XP looks superficially as much like OS X as possible, and hope that no one notices the difference. He'll also delay the c*** out of MS Office for OS X.

    Typical Bill at work.

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    @home study

    well, duh! those who have it, use it.

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    Truth in FUD

    Gates et al. finally 'fessing up and publicly acknowledging software as beta??!!! WOW! My faith has been restored! Usually they charge big bucks and call it the latest .0 version.

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    Microsoft Beta testing

    For a charge of $10 Microsoft will allow you to register to download what they are calling "Release Candidate 1" which will be available late this summer.

    It is interesting that they are referring to it as a "Release Candidate." Normally that would mean that that version had a possibility of becoming the Golden Master, but apparently Microsoft has a different dictionary, because they are already promising that those who register will also get to download "Release Candidate 2" at no additional charge.

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    Paying for Betas

    And people complained about Apple charging for a very stable Beta OS X on CD!

    Now Microsoft is asking people to pay money now to DOWNLOAD some future beta of Windows. Not only is MS not specifying a date when it will be available, they are also saying that they know it will not be a very good release candidate.

    I am glad I have OS X.

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    What OS X should be...

    OS X v10.0 should have been beta 2, like MS is doing with XP. MS might make products that stink, but they know how to run a business better than Apple does.

    Yeah, and Gates is worried about OS X like an elephant is worried about a mosquito bite. Get real...OS X is not even remotely a threat to windows. Even if Apple doubled their miniscule sub-5% marketshare, it would have little effect on MS.

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    Re: What OSX should be...

    I find it entertaining that few people seem to listen/read. From the beginning Apple said this version of OSX is for EARY ADOPTERS. ie: it will have problems and therefore we are not installing it on new hardware yet and it should only be for those mature enough to use it. Duh...if you don't know what it means to be an early adopter, then don't be one....dumb a**..

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    Gates IS worried though..

    ...because Gates is a paranoid lunatic. He probably thinks Amiga and Be are still threats in that bizarre little world in which he lives.

    Remember, this is the same guy who honestly thought Netscape was going to make an OS and crush Microsoft like an eggshell.

    Face it, the timing is too good...the Win XP beta release on the very next working day after OS X comes out? Wake up and smell the coffee.

    Gates has always known that Apple makes a better OS...Windows was always a continuing quest to copy the Mac OS, Gates practically admitted it in a comment he made during Windows development to one of his engineers:

    "Thats not what a Mac does! FIX IT! I want Mac on Windows! I WANT MAC ON WINDOWS!"

    See? Bill knows what to copy. And whether its losing 50% of the market or just a couple of percentage points, he's always paranoid, always afraid.



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    OS X Wanna Be--Not!

    I've read that Microsoft wants to go to a subscription based model for future software releases? Also, with open source being big now, (such as Mac OS X and Linux), and Windows being more of a close source product, I think his market share will dwindle. So, go ahead and release XP, I think it will drive more people to an OS where the consumer can control their own computer and not Microsoft.

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