Neowin News Feed for: Betas

Windows 7 Home Premium and Server betas available to public

Damien Reynolds — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:16 +0000

Update: Microsoft has updated the site with "Beta Keys are Offline! The Hardware Newsletter invitation code was posted publically. We hope to have a solution in place shortly and appologize for the convenience." Microsoft... Read more...

Microsoft Rolls Out Key Development Tool Betas

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:08:44 +0000

Within the next few days, Microsoft will release key development technology to help developers build applications across a variety of platforms, including the Web, desktops, servers and mobile devices. In an interview with eWEEK at... Read more...

Nivio betas hosted Windows

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:12:33 +0000

Nivio has started beta tests of a Windows XP hosted desktop service, which it claims can stream a desktop to any compatible browser so you can remotely access Windows apps on Linux, a Mac, or... Read more...

Microsoft Ships Early Betas Of 'Cougar' And 'Centro' Servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:55:27 +0000

Microsoft has released early beta versions of its "Cougar" upgrade of Small Business Server and "Centro," a new integrated server suite for midsize businesses. Both products are x64-only and are scheduled to ship in 2008,... Read more...

Microsoft Betas of 'Centro' and 'Cougar' started

Steven Parker — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:42:32 +0000

While Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are virtually out the door, Microsoft continues its march towards updating its server products to match. In the latest move, Microsoft last week began shipping a... Read more...

Windows Vista: Betas show potential and problems

Brad Wardell — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:47:47 +0000

Windows Vista shows a lot of promise. With beta 2 of Microsoft's much anticipated operating system nearly ready to be released to the public, users will soon have the ability to judge for themselves how... Read more...

McAfee Tests CleanBoot, VirusScan Enterprise Betas

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Nov 2002 04:29:57 +0000

Network Associates' McAfee Business Unit is currently beta testing new products for its expanding anti-virus arsenal. A new utility being tested dubbed CleanBoot enables NTFS partitions to be cleaned via bootable diskette or CD. The... Read more...

The Sims Online - betas started

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:41:11 +0000

Sounds cool - here is a snip. "Recently The Sims Online team achieved our Alpha milestone for our next play test version. We will be starting an internal test within EA very soon... Read more...

XP Service Pack Betas Escape Redmond

Steven Parker — Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:29:12 +0000

Internal beta builds of Microsoft's forthcoming Service Pack 1 for Windows XP are finding their way onto the Internet thanks to some unscrupulous employees. Although public betas almost always leak to the Web, in the... Read more...