re: Sorry Tim, but the Exchange beta has been updated

Tim Long — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:54:04 GMT

That's OK, I have a thick skin ;-)

Now I do feel slightly hypocritical for complaining about too much beta availability, because in another comment I was also complaining that it was too hard to get access to beta code (or more exactly, as a Microsoft partner, I was only able to get Office 2007 beta at the same time as Joe Public). But things are crazy at the moment. The whole world is going to be running unsupported beta releases of the whole darned stack. As an example of what I mean, try downloading Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and see if you don't end up with IE 7 beta 3.

That's OK for "insiders" and even for competent hobbyists, but I'm not sure that aggressively marketing all these unsupported betas to Joe Public is really the right thing to do.

It is nice to see the appearance of betas in the latest Action Pack shipment, though - a very appropriate place for beta software. I think that is a good step, provided it doesn't dilute the "real" Action Pack content.