Neowin News Feed for: Betaplace

New Command Line Shell Released on BetaPlace

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:48:12 +0000

The first beta version of Microsoft's new Command Line based shell was released to users via Microsoft's BetaPlace website on Friday. The release, codenamed "Monad", was originally thought to be a component of Longhorn.... Read more...

New GuestId's for Microsoft betaplace beta's

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:35:30 +0000

Deployment Accelerator MSM EAP - MSM provides a combination of best practices, implementation services, and automation for deploying and managing your IT infrastructure. View: Sign up for MSM EAP -... Read more...

Whidbey Alpha on BetaPlace

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 19:15:55 +0000

Roughly a week after a select group of testers gained access to an early release Microsoft's Yukon beta, "Whidbey" - a special version of Visual Studio which serves as the face of Yukon for developers... Read more...

BetaPlace Down for Maintenance on Saturday, August 2nd

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:09:54 +0000

Just a heads up in case you are wondering on August 2nd why won't be able to get into betaplace... The beta website, https://www.betaplace.com, will be down approximately 6 hours for maintenance... Read more...

Six new docs/files for Office 2003 Released on Betaplace

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:27:48 +0000

Today, Betaplace has released six new documentation/files for Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2. The files released are: Word XML Content Development Kit (CDK) Smart Tag and Smart Doc Software Developers Kit (SDK) The... Read more...

Office 11 Beta 2 kicks off on BetaPlace, Survey added

Steven Parker — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:09:52 +0000

While half a million additional users are expected to participate on Beta 2 of Office 11 Microsoft have showed no real signs of wanting to commit itself to the new name yet choosing to leave... Read more...

Betaplace announcement on webnews bug

Tom Warren — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:54:29 +0000

Just logged into betaplace to see an important message from the admins about the recent file attachment bug. Effective immediately: The WebNews team discovered a problem with file attachments in WebNews 1.6,... Read more...

BetaPlace - .NET Passport Single Sign-in

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:15:54 +0000

Second time lucky ;) All Microsoft BetaPlace users: We are transitioning to a .NET Passport Single Sign-in Service for BetaPlace beginning November 20th. BetaPlace will be unavailable on November 20th at... Read more...

Microsoft fixes BetaPlace access

Steven Parker — Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:10:12 +0000

Well busy day for Microsoft, if its not all the leaking going on (call the plumbers!) It's BetaPlace throwing off valid testers. As we reported here last week Microsoft implemented .NET passports in combination with... Read more...

BetaPlace users MUST use .Net

Steven Parker — Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:14:16 +0000

hehe look what all those happy campers have been "issued" with now, The Beta ID and Pass is now associated with your .NET passport (no more multiple logins) which means a beta tester is easier... Read more...