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Why, oh why?

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Contributed by: A Nony Mouse Sunday, June 04 2006 @ 09:15 AM PDT

Product Platform: WinNT,Win95,Win98,WinME,WinXP,Win2k

Used Product For: Over One Year

Is this product still in BETA at version 9.0x??

This is perpetual BETA ware much like Mac OS X's Omniweb which is equally as useful- no doubt they both work but when you tell your users that you should expect problems here and there it basically should at some point be stable for a full release instead of trying to avoid being labelled as buggy by sayin, "hey, its still BETA, be careful.." No, maybe its just not a stable product- but for free who gives a darn.   

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Why, oh why? - tersonodesign

d'oh!!!!

It's a beta because it's a new version - version 9 as opposed to version 8. v8 has been out for some time and is NOT a beta. V9 hasn't yet reached the final release version (it's only been in public testing for couple of months), so it IS a beta.

Omniweb is not a perpetual beta either. New versions come out every now and then, and prior to the final release there is generally a public beta available so that the developers can squash a few final bugs before shipping the update.

Why is this so hard to understand? sheesh!

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Sunday, June 18 2006 @ 09:15 AM PDT


Why, oh why? - tersonodesign

d'oh!!!!

It's a beta because it's a new version - version 9 as opposed to version 8. v8 has been out for some time and is NOT a beta. V9 hasn't yet reached the final release version (it's only been in public testing for couple of months), so it IS a beta.

Omniweb is not a perpetual beta either. New versions come out every now and then, and prior to the final release there is generally a public beta available so that the developers can squash a few final bugs before shipping the update.

Why is this so hard to understand? sheesh!

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Sunday, June 18 2006 @ 09:16 AM PDT