Live from Austin!

Work was pretty frustrating today. I was trying to do real work using beta versions of software not due for actual release for at least six more months. Windows needed rebooting four times, which is a lot of coffee breaks.

I was using beta code because Big Blue’s general policy is to have internal users run the betas full time, so that we’ll find the bugs rather than the customers. I wonder if they do the same in Redmond?

One of the joys of working for a certain century-old computer company is that we get to run our own beta releases on our internal networks. Whether we like it or not.

Apparently my primary mail server is going to be running beta code of the next major release, starting today. I wonder how much it will hurt?

Somehow I doubt Microsoft run their critical infrastructure using their own beta code…