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
>
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> ----- "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.
>> >
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>> > ----- "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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