From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> to gold"  still has so many untested combinations that full beta testing
> isn't going to cover all of them.

That's where public betas help.

> Finally, and this is the part that I really don't like, there are whole
sets
> of scenarios where the code is known to be Working as Designed but not
> Working as Intended and the software supplier doesn't publicly acknowledge
> these items won't be fixed.  How can one beta test software when there are
> conditions that the supplier has no intention of fixing when you don't
know
> what those conditions are.

Can you give me an example?

Geo.

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