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Adrian Miller - PacketCD also OT
I've seen LyX and Netscape Composer (why most people don't use HTML for word-processing is far beyond me) and I think they are the two best 'word-processors' out there. So far, most people don't know how to install a new OS. This is more the problem than anything. Another problem is FUD about software piracy now

Entourage X and OS X 10.2
All the programmers involved should agree to donate their code to the good cause and they should not expect to make any money from the new OS. Anybody with an Amiga can be a beta tester, so volunteer now! 3) RESOURCES. Obviously, we'll need computers. Everybody has his/her own Amiga to develop or test on,

What Partitions Can WinME Install On?
Ok, i have a confession to make, and you all might hate me for saying this, but my actual OS sytem is Windows XP Beta 2: Codename Whistler. I AM a beta tester for it, and the one thing i wanted to test was Tribes 2, since it will be the shizzit game when the new OS comes out. I do have the VIA chipset,

Modula-2 FAQ/part2
To answer your asinine and lame comment re: credibility...there's no credibility involved in testing new OS pre-releases. In my case, it's almost a pre-requisite for my job. Hell, I get asked what W2K is by customers all the time. Helps to know what it is, doesn't it? And you're not paying to beta test Win98?

New OS/2 Beta
This looks great - it's amazing how many new OS/2 game titles have appeared on the horizon in the past few months. I have write them about beta testing today, and in the same day, they have reply to me !, this is the reply: We'd be glad to add you to our testing team. Although, as is mentioned on our site,

Vista SP1 released to manufacturing
I personally see Win ME as a waste of time. Either stick with 98, or go Win2K with Sp1. Patrick Joseph Lee Jennings wrote: Well as a Oem builder i have been at least beta testing now the antivirus 2001 and systemworks 2001 is almost ready. that is what is called being ready for a new os. sorry about the long rant.

Wow.
I am only too well aware of the low level changes that can occur when a new OS is introduced. Especially as Me has far more such changes than most users appreciate One being a beta tester who had had no problems with VPN as late as RC1 if not RC2 but RTM is a no no. Regards, -- Mike M "Adrian Miller (Roxio)"

NetSecL 2.2 is Launched with Xfce, Detailed Xfce Survey of ...
What good does that do me if all my Hardware and software is not compatible. Come on creative get with it. also if you use symantec products all current are at least beta testing now the antivirus 2001 and systemworks 2001 is almost ready. that is what is called being ready for a new os. sorry about the long rant.

XP not ready for prime time
I was under the impression that people run beta`s to test them for bugs and whatever. Silly me. It seems that Microsoft want me to pay them $20 dollars for the Face it, do you want to run XP to do serious beta testing? To test your own commercial applications on a new OS platform? To install the software in a

OK Turtles, New OS Coming Up (Windows XP)
I was a beta tester for XP and I didn't have any problems post rc1. xp is a very good operating system and i as a beta tester am very proud of it. lewis Which is what annoyed me at first with XP taking almost full control of CD duplication. But once I have calmed down I think I might give it a little more time,

Why I switched back to NT, and then back to Linux again
The backup tool built into Windows Vista may be the worst utility every packed into an operating system. It doesn't allow you to back up individual files, said that the group has received nearly 2400 bug reports so far from beta testers, and still had 495, or about 21% of the total, classified as "active.

System restore vs. Scanreg restore
After all, if I'm going to be a beta tester, I want to be paid for the effort. Within the evil world of the Microsoft dictatorship, most of us are the subjects. When MS puts out a new OS, their IT people will start futzing with it. But the company hangs back for a long time before converting over: years.

Problem Printing Word 2008 Doc with Xerox Phaser 6110
gzim...@ibm.net comp os os2 apps Or you can buy AnPoCODEC for $20 and download the FREE .MOV to .AVI converter for Intel and be 100% covered with the pack-in OS/2 Digital Video player DISCLAIMER: I was a beta-tester for QuickMotion, and one of the things that impressed me the most was to see what I was missing.

OS Wars
You might attend a TechNet briefing or sign up as a beta tester (bit late for ME but worth considering in the future). There are possibly other avenues that Then my buggy software can be used to show off MS's new OS, I'm sure MS will be happy. Sounds like a good plan to me. :) I won't even bother with this one.

CDR Identifier
If you have any other questions about Linux, let me know. Before I tried it, I was I die-hard MS user. Now, I still use MS, but I like Linux a lot better. Craig Knapp wrote: 08 OCT 00, 2149 hrs local If you are developing a new OS I do have some suggestions for you. I also volunteer to be a beta tester for you,

ASPI for Win32 is not initialized!
I started out working and programming in DOS before that and found myself forced into being a beta tester just like the millions of other Windows users in the world. I don't have time to test a new OS (I'm 37 years old now.) By the time they get Lindows perfected I will be almost 50 and we all know that is way to

What a mess XP is!
Memory Stick is just about available everywhere... Just ask any digicam user... :) And the price is on par with other types of flash memory as well. What is going to make me REALLY happy is when the 16MB memory mods come out for the N700C. Hehehe... -- ===Team OS/2, Team OS/2 at Taiwan, ICE News Beta Tester.

The Birth Of An Anti-OS/2 Zealot In COOA
This simply started with the thought of trying it out on 1 pc, and you mean to tell me you guys don't have a "bench machine" to test software and hardware on? no sense anyway to install a new OS on old hardware, especially since the changes in Vista are only really surface anyway to XP, with a few exceptions.

Stationery
What amazes me is that IBM even spoke of the JFS! I'm sure that Microsoft is now at this moment franting and rushing to put similiar technology into NT 5. So when will the new OS/2 Server ( V5? ) get released? ( So then the cleint could be released ) We have heard the beast is in alpha/beta testing,

Apple's multiple operating systems
This 'no crashing OS' blew up after a failed attempt to install Midtown Madness (a microsoft game). After getting a number of 'we are sorry but please send this info to microsoft' I decided to stop being a beta tester for microsoft and call HP to get a new OS. The problem once again was not the N5415 it was the XP