Stickmanrockin

I concur. I mean no one starts out as an expert. I come here for info and the occasional laugh...not to rea folks being ripped just because they dared to ask what someone else would consider to be a lame question.

Call me names(some of which may actually be accurate) if you wish, but it seems to me that a muiti-BILLION dollar comapny such as M$ could keep alpha and beta builds from being leaked if they wanted. I'm not buying that they don't want it leaked. Common sense and the fact that the builds of every stinkin' OS they have every worked on has been leaked and passed around on the net like free candy suggests otherwise. Okay...let the name calling resume hehehehe

Quote: Originally posted by jdulmage: LOAD OF BULLSHIT ALERT! Microsoft doesn't leak out betas you idiot, I have seen employees ILLEGALLY leak builds before, but what your saying is so fucking funny, it makes my sides hurt... <edit> I may as well just up and tell you that my mother's friend works at Microsoft, he has told me millions of times that MS doesn't like the leaking of betas, he says it's against policies </edit> Glad I was able to provide you some humor but I gotta ask, if Microsoft minded the leaks of the alpha's and the beta's...then why are so many sites posting screenshots of the OS and posting reviews??? If M$ minds this all so much, then why aren't they filing legal complaints against all the sites that are posting screenshots of the OS in action??? PS...what can I say, my wife lovesbeing married to an idiot hehehehe

I'm confuzzled. M$ deliberately leaks these builds out for folks to test for them. This is not news. They've done the same thing ever since win95 that I recall. Knowing this...why are sites acting so damned secretive about having it and keeping copies of it *so close to the vest*? I'm not an IT person nor am I a MCSE. I build machines and do the small business network thingy from time to time. I am never gonna get to be a beta tester for M$. I am still, however, an advanced end-user and can run an OS thru it's paces like anyone else and still smile that I am one of a few *(depending on your definition) that is using whatever it is. I've been to the German site, to the channel on EFnet, dalnet and all my usual haunts for getting software to test before I buy...and yes, I do actually buy software IF I have had the chance to try it out 1st. But people seem to either be hoarding the Os or acting as if B. Gates and the feds are poised to attack...when its adeliberately leaked alpha hehehehe...I just don't get it. Could someone explain the need for this please! thanks