[Bump. This beta/build is now three months old . . . Windows 7 went from
Beta to RTM in 6 months with multiple releases to the community. Vista was
similar, but lasted about a year. ]
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Three months isn't very long at all for a build. As Wendy would say,
"Patience, Grasshopper!" As has been said many times, a new build will be
distributed when it's ready, and not before. All the grinching in the world
won't make the Team release anything until it's time.
I was on the Win 7 beta from January through July 2009; however, it had been
ongoing for quite some time by then. Prior to the time I got my invitation
(at least a year), participation was limited to certain groups, made up of
mostly large corporations before it was released the "technical beta
testers". Six months of testing is just not gonna cut it with an OS as good
as Win 7.
I was on the Vista beta from July 2005 to RTM sometime around November 2006.
Vista and Office 2007 launched in January 2007. That's around a year and a
half, and again, I wasn't in on the original distribution of the beta.
Nancy Ward
Windows 8 Beta Ferret
Nancy Ward
