posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:24 PM
by
anoras
How about weekly builds of Whidbey and Orcas?
Towards the end of the Java ”Tiger” (J2SE 5.0) project, a snapshot of the binaries was released every week. This enabled early adopters to have access to all the latest bug fixes and changes. The Java community was so enthusiastic about this, that Sun now has decided to release weekly snapshot of not only the binaries, but also the source code for Java “Mustang”. Wouldn’t it be cool if Microsoft did something similar? What some of the bugs in Whidbey went away each week? And wouldn’t it be great to get a flying start on developing with Orcas immediately after .NET 2.0 is released next year?
(Yes, I know that Longhorn previews where handed out at PDC, but I’m thinking of publicly available releases. Not just for the few at PDC or the elite who are “down” with the dudes at Microsoft.)