Quote Originally Posted by mikeyjo
Don't have to look too hard to find that the final product - Vista, is anything but polished and customers are stuck paying full price for beta software.

Some find that's par for the course, some say there's a sucker born every minute....

I'll pass on Vista.... for a while thx.
And please, enlighten me, how is Vista beta software?

What part of vista isnt working properly?

Hardware and software venders not providing drivers and software updates that work with Vista is not MS's fault. They have no control over what other companies do, and the other companies dropped the ball big time in not providing drivers for people for their hardware. Its not like Vista was announced far in advance, and its not like they were given the specifications for Vista so that they could code the drivers and software updates ahead of time...

As far as the SP1 beta test, they do it because it makes everyone happy. People who want to get the updates before everyone else can get it, and in return for getting access to it early, MS is able to beta test it on a large scale audience, because honestly it doesnt matter how great your in house QA people are, you will miss things that will be found when you have a large amount of people all screwing with the software. You have to purposely seek out the update, because it is beta it isnt pushed to anyone who doesnt want it.