full-disclosure - lame bitching about xpsp2 (will it ever sto p ?)

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From: allan.vanleeuwen at orangemail.nl (allan.vanleeuwen@...ngemail.nl)
Subject: lame bitching about xpsp2 (will it ever sto
	p ?)

Official standpoint from M$ on beta/RC naming:

Beta releases do not necessarilly contain same functionality as the final
release RC DOES contain same functionality as final release (no more
functionality changes are planned)

So it's not a question of reliability but functionality ...

Just my 2c

-----Original Message-----
From: Jos Osborne [mailto:Jos@...temi.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:51 PM
To: Raymond; Nick Eoannidis
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] lame bitching about xpsp2

>Release candidates are not beta's. That's why beta's are called beta's 
>and releasecandidates releasecandidates.
>
>Eventhough, beta's should already have a certain reliability, since 
>beta means: ready for a scheduled releasetime. That is even more so for 
>releasecandidates because (yes:) they are releasecandidates.

So they'd be Gamma's?

Jos

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