Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Feb 2009 10:49 UTC
Windows With the recent news that Microsoft will not release a second beta but will instead move Windows 7 directly into release candidate stage, several Windows testers have become a tad bit disgruntled. They claim that due to a lack of test builds, they cannot properly test Windows 7 to see if the bugs they submitted have been fixed. As a result, Steven Sinofsky simply replied: email me your concerns.
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non-event a top story?
by yahya on Fri 20th Feb 2009 22:16 UTC
yahya
Member since:
2007-03-29

So when Debian after almost two years of work releases a new version of their operating system, this is a page 2 story http://www.osnews.com/story/20983/Debian_5_Lenny_Released/ because the topic had already been covered. At the same time, Windows gets a top story just to report that nothing happens. Who has the same difficulties as me understanding the balance here?

RE: non-event a top story?
by nobody on Sat 21st Feb 2009 03:44 in reply to "non-event a top story?"
nobody Member since:
2006-06-02

One is an OS used by thousands of people in the world. The other is an OS used by millions of people in the world.

There's your balance.

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RE[2]: non-event a top story?
by yahya on Sat 21st Feb 2009 12:01 in reply to "RE: non-event a top story?"
yahya Member since:
2007-03-29

"Thousands"? I was talking about Debian, which has 23,000 software packages alone, maintained by something like 1,000 devs (and certainly more users than packages) and which is the basis of Ubuntu and countless other distributions. If they had put Arch Linux, LinuxMint, Xandros, Linspire or one of the countless others on page two I certainly wouldn't have complained. But his was about Debian.

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