> @Frankline you dont seem to get the point. Versions 6-8 are basically based on one architecture, 9 is different. Read my mail. this is not unique to msft.
> Being a new architecture its common with software vendors to earmark an entire series as unstable and I gave an example with blender. The 2.5 series
> is earmark as a test series since as of 2.50 the architecture was rebuilt from scratch. 2.6 has been earmarked as stable.
> I cant say this is the case with IE9 but its possible all IE9 versions could be marked as unstable (it doesnt matter whether its Alpha Beta Gamma or RC.)

>
>
> > But even msft's move to support opensource is riddled with insincerity.
>
>

A statement like that, have you done your research or are you reading the same media articles that get kickbacks from Apple and Google?
> I can tell you msft of late has cleaned up shop so live with it.
> If you have a problem with IE9 dont use it, no one is forcing you. Personally I have never used it and that hasnt made me loose sleep at all.
>
> Again you dint read what I said... HISTORICALLY APPLE HAS BEEN JUST AS ANTI OPEN SOURCE AS MSFT. I dont even need to mention
> Oracle and Adobe. Now if you get your news from certain source especially CNN (mostly US edition) you will realize CNN only promotes Apple products -- FACT.
> With CNN backing you it creates a false hype around products. Take for instance the iPad, there is so much it lacks yet nobody focuses on that
> and you get this bias impression that its perfect, that the same thing with the iPhone. DId you know iPhone has had zero growth this year as far as
> market share goes. CNN has said nothing significant about it. The iPod was not an original idea as well.
> Msft Kinect has been out for a few months, It a damn serious product (needs some performance enhancements though) like no other in the gaming industry. Yet
> media has shunned it jus coz its a msft product. In the Gaming, Graphics programming industry theres so much hype around it, sales are phenominal, but coz its
> msft media is quiet about it.
>
> reading stuff blindly off the Internet can get you lost to reality so check your sources and again if you dont understand how software versioning works, please ask
>
> ---------------------------------------
>

> Steve O
> Software Developer
> www.sobbayi.com
> ====================
>
> ----- "Frankline Chitwa" <frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So between 6, 7, 8 Redmond decided 9 would live for 2 months? therefore 10 should live like 1 month? Nobody bashes google and apple coz they never interfered with open source. Infact, google is a developer darling because they work with open source not against so are the rest. But even msft's move to support opensource is riddled with insincerity.
> >
> >

> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail..com> wrote:
> >

That is the exact rationale am questioning when the whole would out
> > there basically follows a near uniform versioning system. It was not
> > that I am ignorant of M$ ways of doing, of which your answer is based
> > on.
> >
> > .../Ok3ch
> >

>
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:
> > > Well there are many software versioning conventions and each developer can use what makes sense to the
> > > team internally. eg a version like 0.2.3 may implicitly mean that software is in Beta because of the zero.
> > > Others may release an entire series as Beta or RC. Eg Blender 2.5 series ranges from Alpha, to Beta RC2.
> > > The last stable version was 2.4x and the next is 2.6. In this case because 2.5 as written from scratch,
> > > the entire series was ear marked to be unstable.
> > >
> > > IE9 was also almost rewrite (i think) they probably dedicated IE9 as a test series culminating in a stable
> > > IE10. Msft has experdited their products eg Windows 8 has already been given to OEM partners for drivers
> > > testing, Win mobile 8 is almost out yet Win mobile 7 has barely taken off.
> > >
> > > Here is a link on Msft version convention for IE
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_version_numbering
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------
> > > Steve O
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> > > www.sobbayi.com
> > > ====================
> > >
> > > ----- "Okechukwu" <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> And whats with releasing IE10 beta when IE9 is still in its infancy?
> > >> I
> > >> thought people release like IE9.1beta as development, ama these big
> > >> numbers don't mean nothing to M$
> > >>
> > >> ../Ok3ch
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > Msft was bashed coz they were at the top of the game just like
> > >> everything
> > >> > else. You only bash whoever is at the top. Part of Msft bashing is
> > >> also
> > >> > coz its a Fad to bash them. Msft has some serious technology out
> > >> there today
> > >> > and there's a lot of stuff they have gotten right and wrong.
> > >> > Trust me I should know as someone who has physically walked the
> > >> corridors at
> > >> > Redmond. Google and Apple have screwed up big time in so many things
> > >> and no
> > >> > one says a thing
> > >> > (at least not yet, until bashing Google or Apple becomes a Fad)
> > >> >
> > >> > Msft were not the only guys against opensource in the 90s. Havent
> > >> you heard
> > >> > of Adobe, Oracle and Apple. These guys have just as bad if not
> > >> worse
> > >> > affinity for open source.
> > >> >
> > >> > Ps. Am not pushing for IE9. Never used it in the first place.
> > >> >
> > >> > ---------------------------------------
> > >> > Steve O
> > >> > Software Developer
> > >> > www.sobbayi.com
> > >> > ====================
> > >> >
> > >> > ----- "Frankline Chitwa" <frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >> Not really,
> > >> >> Techies only bash msft coz they bash open source for no reason.
> > >> Msft are
> > >> >> the only company who actually advocated for the extermination of
> > >> opensolurce
> > >> >> in the 90s. Right now they are after google simply because they
> > >> cant stand
> > >> >> android compe, so they have to kill android via patents, then they
> > >> claimed
> > >> >> IE had the fastest javascript engine only for a developer to prove
> > >> they were
> > >> >> using tricks., I mean, that should be beneath msft
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Why should I not bash against such?
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Odhiambo Washington
> > >> <odhiambo@gmail.com>
> > >> >> wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 16:30, george
> > >> >> > <theonlydamnedavailablename@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >> >
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Wash, I think if nothing else, we do know what hang-ing is.
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> Techies wont complain about the rest because they are not msft.
> > >> The
> > >> >>> popular thing is to bash msft and suffer with your open source.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> > LOL ... actually, you are very right. Very few of us techies
> > >> would dare
> > >> >> > complain about a HANG Unix because we always want to make pple
> > >> blv msft is
> > >> >> > the evil one:-)
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >>
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