From ActiveWin: “Microsoft UK is offering the loyal subjects of her majesty the opportunity to test drive the latest Beta 3 of Windows .NET Server family by ordering it, for free, over the web.” The offer is available to .NET Passport holders.
Windows .NET Beta 3 Available As Evaluation Version in UK
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I wish they would make these offers avaiable to US citizens. I would like to try this and see what it has over Windows 2000 Server.
They should make these offers available to all loyal subjects of Microsoft.
hmm they did have something for US based people, coz i’ve this post beta 3 windows .net server cd. it was mailed to me…how they got my address i dunno…
I wish they would make these offers avaiable to US citizens.
Hah! Sorry, but it’s about time Microsoft paid some attention outside of the United States. I think this bit of role-reversal is deserved.
Excuse me while I colour my fount dialogue…
I think your keyboard is malfunctioning, you spelled COLOR and FONT wrong
I was recently invited to join a “technology preview program” for MCT’s in the US to evaluate and test .Net server. It’s Windows 2000 Second Edition. Or, it’s XP with all the new stuff turned off by default (in fact, MS won’t accept a bug report if you turn things Like DirectX or the Luna interface on).
Just a minor point release that modifies your Active Directory schema.
Loyal subjects? Not many Britons I know wants the monarchy to go on..
I think your keyboard is malfunctioning, you spelled COLOR and FONT wrong
Though “font” is correct, most of the English speaking world uses “colour” instead or “color”. Maybe Americans spell wrongly. Another thing I don’t understand about American English is how rugby is called football when the foot isn’t used much; when football is called soccer. And it very funny to hear Americans pronounce “flour”….
>Another thing I don’t understand about American English is how >rugby is called football when the foot isn’t used much; when >football is called soccer
Americans call rugby just plain old rugby, what your thinking about is “American Football” which is a whole different kettle of fish from rugby. Now there is a degree of kicking in rugby, but from what i can see hardly any in American Football, but then i’m irish so to me football is either soccer or Gaelic Football 😛
as for spelling Colour without the u, well the english spell it colour and they invented the language 😉
And _Fount_ is correct as well, though seldom used.
Look it up in your dictionary.
Firstly, it’s nice to see Microsoft acknowledge the existence of countries outside the US. Most of my friends no longer user the MS-Office spell-checker, because the “Australian English” spelling is … American. In Australia we can never get these “free” demos/betas/etc. Mind you, that might not be a bad thing.
We also spell things correctly, like the British. Although we have our own brand of “football”, and call soccer “soccer”. Sorry ’bout that, but we’re just a convict colony :]
Anyway, enough of picking on the small details. “The offer is available to .NET Passport holders” … surprise, surprise. MS’s quest for world domination is explained. Slowly, beta software will be available around the world. The only price? A passport account. Count me out.
> “Australian English” spelling is … American
Actually, it’s not. It’s gibberish. It accepts some Aussie spellings and rejects others. For example, ‘organisation’ it highlights as wrong (accepting ‘organization’) but lets ‘realisation’ through. The really funny thing about this is that the recommend spellings in Oz are the -s- spellings, but in the UK and US, the recommend are the -z- spellings (although -s- is still right in the UK).
Microsoft UK is offering the loyal subjects of her majesty the opportunity to test drive the latest Beta 3 of Windows .NET Server family by ordering it, for free, over the web
Australians are subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of Australia Queen Elizabeth II. Indeed, you could even say we’re loyal: the referendum held to give us our own head of state didn’t actually pass. Damn elections being held before I’m eighteen… Not that I’m bitter of course, no, never bitter… All that will change in a month and a day, when I get to drink, drive and vote. Not at the same time, of course…
Australians are subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of Australia Queen Elizabeth II. Indeed, you could even say we’re loyal: the referendum held to give us our own head of state didn’t actually pass. Damn elections being held before I’m eighteen… Not that I’m bitter of course, no, never bitter… All that will change in a month and a day, when I get to drink, drive and vote. Not at the same time, of course…
The same goes for Canada and New Zealand, but I would hardly call them loyal.
Two more years to being 18 for me. Well, at least I can drive, vote and start my own business, smoke, but like most areas, drinking and pr0n is only allowed for 21 and above. That’s 5 more years!
Never realised so many posters were so young, makes me feel old.
Anyway, this is good news, wouldn’t mind getting a good look at .NET Server just to see what all the hype is about. I heard its upto 50% faster than Windows 2000 on serving operations.
I installed the beta and did not bother to register so the lock down after 15 days is in effect, but I did notice that the same hw system under win2k I had to search for the drivers, in the . net version everything was detected without problems. and bootup and load time is significantly faster than win 2k. and screen updates are zippy too. though no more time to play with it or get it activated.
if 32 is young…then i wud qualify too 😉
“Though “font” is correct, most of the English speaking world uses “colour” instead or “color”. Maybe Americans spell wrongly.”
That was a joke. I can’t stand the way some words are spelled by the British, like colour, it’s absolutely ridiculous
( London Calling )
Colour isnt really an English word – we got it from the French – they spell it differently but pronounce the same. Written english demands that a long O be spelt OU
In fact, color is correctly pronounced Coe-law as two identical vowels straddling a vowel make the first vowel hard….
Before you get picky, remember that this language has remained very similar for a thousand years – your country has messed it up a bit in the last 300 ( Most *americanisms* cant be traced back even that far ) but we can filter out this verbal pollution. What Ho!
I ordered the CD, and I live in Wisconsin. I never got an error or anything, just a page saying it should arrive in 7-10 days. So we’ll see what happens.
Colour isnt really an English word – we got it from the French
A fair amount of the English language is French. So you could say that all native English speakers are corrupting their language…