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Windows ME support by Creative?
SO they ship me a new motherboard, which dies because the damage ATI card is *really* messed up. So they replace both my card and my motherboard. and while both of these articles might ramble on a bit, maybe we'll save some new-to-nextstep user the frustrations of trying to put their new OS on a Gateway.

The Birth Of An Anti-OS/2 Zealot In COOA
The difference being: IBM will ensure CP works before they release it using their own in-house and corporate structure of beta testers. ..... I can't blame you for yours, I hope you can't blame me for mine... Do you actually believe potentially new OS/2 users are going to flock to Serenity to buy the full standard

Is Formula Bar floating going to be fixed?
And the fact that so many developers, including the likes of Adobe, seem to have been caught out by 8.5 fills me with fresh dismay. Has everyone taken their eye off the ball? Is Windows so alluring that noone has the time to devote to beta testing new Apple OS upgrades? Did Apple run a proper beta programme?

Windows 2000 conning
... their beta testers. It is stupid to expect that kind of support. What is going on? When things get popular, IBM will rather close the program than to encourage people to join. Well, I gotten my impression of IBM, and the new IBM just isn't there. Windows: It seems to me that IBM wants a 32-bit operating system

Pavilion N5415 and XP... NOT!
I was a beta tester under Money Tree and for me it did not deliver. I needed online banking and other features that only Quicken offers. And now that Tax Dollars is gone, unless a new player steps in, and a new OS/2 player hasn't risen in quite sometime, there are no OS/2 tax solutions.

Random tidbits regarding WOC & A4000
I have been on computers since I could get my hands on one and kept putting every new OS of WINDOWS, IE, and all updates that I thought would I know beta testing and Windows 95 is not ready for the public yet as it still has 600 bugs that they are working on, but, they need it(Win95) out as they have been

Did Netscape ever charge $ for Navigator?
If you think that win95 was a brand new OS well I have some beautiful land in Florida to sell you. It is not very configurable. I find it very limiting. First of all, being an author of a dozen confirmed bugs does not mean a lot to me. You mention beta tester. Is that all your exposure to OS/2 is from beta

Windows XP Beta.
People tend to expect a bit more when using a purchases product, then when people were beta testing it (of course then people will expect some bugs and accept that they are the ones to detect this if they signed up for the beta test program) or getting a free RTM evaluation version. Typically with a new OS,

Hard Drive Swapping and Windows XP
Now please don't respond with the typical "list your problems and we'll explain how to fix them because we are Beta testers and we know how to do it". all day would be better than any new OS ... Rob Kuhnemund A. - "Having a foolproof computer-system means never letting any fool touch that machine."

*Why Windows 95 Sucks!* ZFZQ!
C't have now released a new patch that will work above 450MHz. Obtainable from ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/ctbppat.zip If you do use a fix for this error which does not work then please post *which* fix with the file datestamp and place obtained, your CPU / OS / Error Message returned. Frank Heckenbach's fix is

Photodraw 2 won't launch. Win Me
Adaptec did not decide to change the OS. The new OS does not require the ASPI layer for their products. Adaptec is not obliged to support other vendors' products no gripe with Roxio - or with Adrian who works for Roxio - or with me and I have no relationship even to Roxio except as a customer and a beta tester.

fwd:New OS/2 product in beta (X-posted)
I do know that it has been confirmed as a bug by the Microsoft testers. That's all I know. I do NOT know which company's code is responsible. OS X has acquired quite a few new tricks since then. Xerox would have been in the same position as Microsoft: some of the new features they would have gotten pre-release

The story of my Packard Bell
I was a beta tester for MAXON'S C4D XL which will have a BeOS version released after the next BeOS update. The programmers told me that it is by far the First I'd have to buy a new OS to see it working ($). Second I'd have to have software that shows it's potential ($$) third, I dhould probably get a new

Has anyone tried DirecPC with WinXP?
Sure, there are still the folks that refuse to upgrade to the new OS, but they are few and far between, and are usually older users that don't want to make the Uh Roger, MS does the most extensive beta testing in the business. Tell me who does more? Windows is the most complicated piece of software ever

Help Gateway_2000 display
²) a new feature that we have to request? Since it has always docked and continues to dock in Windows and docks in every other spreadsheet program, I am hoping it is viewed as a bug and a candidate for an immediate fix. If anyone tells me to request it, I think I may scream. Itıs like requesting that the keyboard

I've got a question about XP and the "swap file" configuration ...
XP SP3 RC2 released to private beta testers d.. How To: Using XP Features a.. How to print a Device Manager report e.. XP Security News a. ..... up your XP desktop manually all these years, but there's a faster way - you can use the Desktop Cleanup Wizard that's built into the OS to remove unwanted shortcuts.

WinXP sp1 beta Patch c000021a BSOD after suscessful patch ...
I would be a good candidate to be a beta tester because I use the Hi-Val removable rack system which allows me to turn off the computer, slide in a new drive and then re-start with a new OS. Currently I have one drive permanently mounted in the computer for data, and 3 drives that I swap with the Hi-Val system.

Living With Windows Vista
All this was using what I think were Wyse stand alone terminals, don't know what OS. Then in '89 some smart computer guys got the contract to convert it all to In the early 90's USASOC was using SPC office suit because one of the reservist could get the software free, he was something called a "Beta Tester".

what happened to rhapsody?
Bit Twister BitTwis...@mouse-potato.com alt os linux mandriva On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:52:06 +0000 (UTC), Bit Twister wrote: 2008.1 beta 2 is on the mirrors. Bad news, I used mcc to change a label, and new menu.lst was empty of the other 7 installs on my system. :( Since my install procedure has me do a cp

Opinions on Norton AntiVirus 10?
mpcap mp...@po.jaring.my comp sys palmtops pilot alt comp sys palmtops pilot Just upgraded my PalmIII to the new OS 3.3 (yes...I am a beta tester for Palm....and no, don't bother asking me for a pre-release copy of the new OS). How come you're still beta testing when Vx has already been released with OS3.3?