beta in comment and analysis
The Skype ecosystem: A labour of love
Comment There are software add-ons that give Skype voicemail (a feature Skype itself is now beta-testing) and integrate Skype with email programs such as Microsoft Outlook. The fact that one of the most popular add-ons is voicemail - a feature Skype is... [18 Mar 2005]
Torvalds: "Solaris is a joke"
Comment They have resurrected the x86 version and added several interesting features - containers, DTrace, and ZFS, for example - that are available today in beta versions of Solaris 10. When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of... [21 Dec 2004]
Q&A: Microsoft's CIO on Linux, security and offshoring
Comment We won't put all 90,000 mailboxes on Exchange beta. We're testing at alpha stage and beta stage, so you are going to find issues. If anyone has a right to complain about buggy Microsoft products, it's Ron Markezich, the software maker's chief... [15 Dec 2004]
Does Skype make sense for business?
Comment Plus, Skype relies on viral marketing - satisfied users recommending Skype to others - to drive downloads, a strategy that's gotten Skype over 14 million users since the public beta launch 15 months ago. [10 Nov 2004]
Niklas Zennström: Telecoms troublemaker
Comment Just 15 months after the company launched the public beta version of its software, Skype boasts 14 million users and 37 million downloads of its software. Skype doesn't take its millions of users for granted, employing their suggestions to drive... [05 Nov 2004]
Windows XP SP2: The journey from Redmond to your desktop
Comment Its first beta of the service pack appeared in December 2003, with Release Candidate (RC) 1 in March of this year and RC 2 in June. Windows XP Service Pack 2 - it's Microsoft's stab at patching its security reputation and three years' worth of work... [12 Aug 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.04.2004
Round-Up However, while the privacy debate could be resolved with consultation with beta users and lobby groups (and their lawyers) and the Gmail name could be licensed from Market Age, this ultimately hasn't been great publicity for the groovy company... [16 Apr 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Inside Intel
Comment SAP will go from alpha to beta, back to alpha, then back to beta and more testing. How wrong they are, writes Rene Carayol. Recently I had the pleasure of hosting an evening where the top brass from the UK retail sector met one of high-tech's most... [21 Nov 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM v BHAL, location-based services and ecommerce VAT
Comment The 8.1 Beta customers have been successful BEA WebLogic 8.1 has just gone GA. This gave BEA the opportunity to have a customer rah-rah session. The main messages were: Lots more (160+) ISV are joining the BEA bandwagon [11 Aug 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile IDs, Novell does Linux and Adobe PDF mindshare
Comment This intention is prepared for in v6.5 which is in beta and should be available in the summer. Two recent announcements highlight the difficulties and importance of mobile authentication. Each adopts a different approach, coming from two different... [28 Apr 2003]
Will Microsoft win the Office platform game?
Comment But it's only at the beta testing stage, so some of those usability issues may be overcome. Microsoft is about to reposition Office. Rather than promoting it as just another application in its portfolio - comprising Word, Excel et cetera - the... [06 Mar 2003]
What does it take to become a CEO?
Comment I'm a Harvard man - Kappa Beta Alpha. Perhaps you've heard mutterings that it might become available soon and you reckon it's time to step forward. But before you embarrass yourself by applying only to be turned down flat, take some time to check... [14 Jun 2002]
Bugs! But who should take the blame?
Comment Beta testing is all very well, but it's no substitute for making bullet-proof software in the first place. In the 1940s, Grace Hopper, keeper of the mighty Harvard Mark 2, found the cause of its inexplicable breakdown - a moth. [20 Feb 2002]
Wearable technology: Computing power on and in us
Comment A first-generation product is scheduled for beta testing in November. Microchips, both simple and complex, are already commonplace, but here Pia Heikkila looks at how they may yet revolutionise our inner space. [23 Oct 2001]
OS Wars: Unix vendors prepare to take on Windows XP
Comment While Sun has acknowledged it has similar technology currently in beta, IBM is currently offering a free download of its AIX developer kit, Java 2 Technology Edition, for AIX 5L. What's more, Sun plans to beta test this autumn its next version of... [22 Oct 2001]
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