RE: Windows XP preview

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

It's far more cost effective and probably more productive for them to have
10,000 users test it than to pay 200 testers...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brookes, Matt [mailto:matt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 August 2001 12:29
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Windows XP preview
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> To be fair (and I'm not one to give Microsoft much credit for
> anything) but even they have to cover media / ship / handling
> costs. £10 doesn't seem unreasonable.
>
> Rgds,
> Matt.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:10 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Windows XP preview
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> On Thursday 09 August 2001 12:03 pm, Timothy Morris wrote:
> > I did notice the smiley Stuart, so I realise your comment was
tongue in
> > cheek, but I'd say this is way beyond beta. There may be some
> new features
> > that aren't in RC1 yet, but I've been using it for 24 hours now,
and
> > haven't found a single bug. I wish I could say the saem for
> NT4.0 and w2k!
>
> That's true, but by beta I meant "not the finished product"
"Release
> Candidates" are beta's by any other name as far as I'm concerned
(as a
> programmer that is).
>
> I ain't saying there's anything wrong with, and I wasn't having a
> go at you
> for doing it, if RC1 is as stable as the final version, but just
> missing a
> few features, then a tenner is a bargain!
>
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