On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:22:37AM +0100, MichaĆ Piotrowski wrote:
Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming
Alpha -> Developer Preview
Beta -> Consumer Preview
Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-beta-may-be-called-the-consumer-preview
It seems to me that this is a very good change for reasons of PR. Such
change in Fedora prerelease naming might encourage more people to test
prereleases. IMHO "Consumer Preview" sounds a lot better than "Beta"
:)
I think the words alpha, beta and RC say exactly what it is. It's bad
to have people install "consumer previews" and expecting things they
won't get, such as upgradabilty, stability, etc.
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