From: "Gregg N" 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> I've been highly critical of Microsoft using betas to soft launch
> products. Windows Live's recent launch, with betas and announcements of
> betas to come, is a good example of this practice. About a year ago,
> colleague Michael Gartenberg wrote: Beta "used to be near-finished
> software sent out to outside testers for testing to un-cover
> bugs...Today it's a catch all phrase for buggy, incomplete software
> rushed to market. If it doesn't work, the excuse is, well, it's beta."
> He's absolutely right.

Google seems to be more guilty of this than Microsoft.

Was the title an intentional allusion to this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100168/

Gregg

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