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PC REPORT
Friday, February 13, 1998
Uncle Bill Wants YOU
In an unprecedented move, Microsoft next week throws its Windows 98 beta test program
open to consumer testers everywhere. The company's Windows 98 Consumer Beta Preview
kicked off January 7th, when a select group of domestic Microsoft customers were
invited to join the beta program. Now Microsoft is opening the beta to all comers,
via a Web-based sign-up process.
Up to 100,000 consumer users will be accepted into the beta test for a $29.95 sign-up
fee. The fee reportedly covers packaging and technical support costs. The "open
beta" is not targeted at business users, but many early testers have already
smuggled the code into corporate environments.
One practice manager of a $50 million Philadelphia-based business consulting firm
told me he's been running the Windows 98 beta 3 on his corporate network for two
weeks, with no problems whatsoever. Because Windows 98 looks exactly like Windows
95 with Internet Explorer 4 installed, nobody notices the difference.
Information about the beta program is located at http://www.microsoft.com/windows98.
Rich Levin, KYW Newsradio.
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