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What is your beta policy?

1 Replies Last post: Mar 30, 2009 3:41 PM by Susan Hall  
Kachina Shaw   5 posts since
Oct 3, 2008
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Dec 16, 2009 1:59 PM

What is your beta policy?

Does your organization have an official policy on the downloading and/or use of beta software? Has a particular situation led to a policy, as it apparently has at Georgetown University, where the IT department is directing users not to download the Windows 7 beta on school machines? Have there been exceptions made for certain projects?

 

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212903508

Susan Hall   8 posts since
Oct 3, 2008
1. Mar 30, 2009 3:41 PM in response to: Kachina Shaw
Re: What is your beta policy?

There seems to be an evolution in thinking on the subject as I just wrote about in "Beta Doesn't Always Mean Bad."

 

And IT Business Edge security blogger Ralph DeFrangesco weighs in, too.

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