Why does Microsoft "Time Bomb" its beta releases?

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The Old New Thing — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:00:14 GMT

Somewhat belatedly
riffing on
Larry
and his discussion of

time bombs in beta products,
I'm reminded...

Why Microsoft Timebombs beta releases

Kieran Jacobsen's Blog — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:33:07 GMT

re: Why does Microsoft "Time Bomb" its beta releases?

Cheong — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:31:35 GMT

Antonio,

I have the same feeling. Actually I think RBA have a wrong vision on "open source" and some other subjects. And sadly I've seen posts on some BBS/newsgroups of non-American countries which promotes the use of Microsoft products made similar comments too. This is not necessarily his fault, but those who told him to think this way. So let's not get this thread flamed.

[More out-topic to backup my comment above] It happenes to me that one day I've seen someone who claims to be one of the professors to say something like this within a BBS of one university. And students are supposed to trust what the professors said, so...

re: Why does Microsoft "Time Bomb" its beta releases?

Andrew W — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:24:22 GMT

Larry, you didn't mention one pertinent downside of time bombs: accidentally leaving them in the final release. This just happened w/ the HDA bus driver QFE - I believe it timed out just this week. Oops!

;-)

-andrew

re: Why does Microsoft "Time Bomb" its beta releases?

Antonio — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:43:35 GMT

First, I'd like to apologize for going off-topic!

@Dean Harding and Norman Diamond:
Sorry, written words on a website don't carry emotions with them, we must evaluate what's being said without any emotional clues from the writer, so I sincerely didn't think his comments were ironic or sarcastic! To me, they seemed an expression of his real feelings, and as such, completely offensive!

Until himself tells me it was ironic or sarcastic, I stand with my view!

@Norman Diamond:
I really didn't understand your comments about Brazil being on the same hemisphere of US!
Are you European? Did you really thought it was an ironic comment even before reading my answer?

@Dave:
Ok, I don't have enough knowledge about these companies to evaluate if you're right or wrong, I won't comment it, then. But I wasn't trying to point good examples of successful corporations, I just wanted to show to Red Blooded American that what he side was completely unrealistic!

@ D. Philippe:
As I said initially, English is not my first language. So I'd like to ask you the exact meaning of "trolled"!
Sorry, I coulnd't find it on my dictionary, and I've seen it in several foruns and always wondered what was it's meaning... :)

Now, going on-topic! :)
@Aaron Hockley:
You said exactly what I was thinking when I read this post! Granted, there can be technical reasons for time bombong betas, and I really think what Larry said makes sense. But event though engineers may have had good intentions when they decided by time bombing, it's obvious that this works really great for marketing purposes, as will make impossible for people to keep using the betas for free without limitations.

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Norman Diamond — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:19:01 GMT

Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:45 AM by Andreas Johansson
> Norman, is that the left of the right hemisphere? ;)

The new hemisphere. So new that it didn't even exist when it was occupied by American native races ^_-

re: Why does Microsoft "Time Bomb" its beta releases?

SuperBK — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:44:11 GMT

How about time bombs in production software? A partner wanted me to put a time bomb in because the customer had 30 days to pay the balance after installation of his "system". So sure enough, he forgot to pay until the last minute and we had to rush a release to him to keep it going. The whole thing was silly and we it made the customer think we didn't trust him.