{"id":32303,"date":"2006-02-14T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/02\/14\/other-things-people-do-with-beta-versions-of-the-operating-system\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T10:00:08","slug":"other-things-people-do-with-beta-versions-of-the-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060214-08\/?p=32303","title":{"rendered":"Other things people do with beta versions of the operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat belatedly riffing on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/\">Larry<\/a> and his discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/archive\/2005\/08\/10\/450173.aspx\"> time bombs in beta products<\/a>, I&#8217;m reminded of one instance of a major PC manufacturer who apparently couldn&#8217;t wait for Windows&nbsp;95 to RTM. Tired of waiting, they shipped several thousands of machines with a late beta version of Windows&nbsp;95 instead.\n That worked out really great.  For six months.\n And then all the computers expired.<\/p>\n<p> Boy did they have a lot of &#8216;splainin&#8217; to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat belatedly riffing on Larry and his discussion of time bombs in beta products, I&#8217;m reminded of one instance of a major PC manufacturer who apparently couldn&#8217;t wait for Windows&nbsp;95 to RTM. Tired of waiting, they shipped several thousands of machines with a late beta version of Windows&nbsp;95 instead. That worked out really great. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-32303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Somewhat belatedly riffing on Larry and his discussion of time bombs in beta products, I&#8217;m reminded of one instance of a major PC manufacturer who apparently couldn&#8217;t wait for Windows&nbsp;95 to RTM. Tired of waiting, they shipped several thousands of machines with a late beta version of Windows&nbsp;95 instead. That worked out really great. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}