MOBODOJO

There was a time when Microsoft released a beta of something and it worked. It worked well enough that it was pretty usable. I’d been through enough beta programs to know that by the time MS got to the general beta phase they had pretty much hashed out all of the major issues. I was an official beta tester with Microsoft back in the days when betas weren’t released to the general public. I worked on the likes of Windows 98, 98 SE, ME (blech!), and one of the best OS to come out of Redmond, Windows 2000, then later XP. I worked on a number of books which covered, in one form or another, each of these operating systems, and I think I know Windows pretty well.

There’s another side to Microsoft software, though. That’s the side where those who aren’t fond of Microsoft say something along the lines of “Nothing from Microsoft is any good until version 3.0″. Interestingly enough, there is some good background for this case, and it started with Windows 3.11. Then Windows 95 came out, and it wasn’t any good until Windows 98 SE. The Windows ME came out, and it blew chunks beyond belief, and it skipped a beat and then we got Windows 2000. It doesn’t always work out, but you can see there’s at least some kind of pattern.

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