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Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?: After a brief blip of news following the mid-July release to manufacturing of Microsoft "Fiji," it's back to radio silence again. But the quiet shouldn't be interpreted as all is well. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Tester, Fiji, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-08-05
Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soon: Microsoft is done testing "Fiji," its update to Windows Media Center and is preparing to release the product -- officially known as "Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 -- via PC makers. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Media Center, TV, Beta, Tester, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Microsoft opens up Live Mesh to more testers: If you were closed out of Microsoft's Live Mesh preview for lack of an invite, you now can get in. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Tester, LiveSide, Live Mesh Team, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote: A number of testers who've been dabbing with the first version of Microsoft's ADO.Net Entity Framework are unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken with the technology -- so much so that they've created a "no confidence vote" petition to make their gripes public. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Corp., Tester, ADO.Net Entity Framework, Business Object, Persistence Ignorance, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Windows 'Fiji' beta testing has begun: Speaking of Microsoft information lockdown, there's been no word in ages from Microsoft about "Fiji," the next version of Windows Media Center Edition. But that isn't because Fiji has evaporated. In fact, the Fiji beta began a few weeks ago, according to a few sources with whom...; Tags: Media Center PC, Microsoft Corp., Tester, Fiji, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-20

USB Flash Drive Tester (exe): Flash card/drive tester allows testing of any removable media including SD, MMC, CF, USB flash pen drives for bad or unstable sectors. Especially useful for testing for fake sizes often seen on low quality USB pen drives. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: USB Flash Drive, USB, Tester, Virtual Console, Flash Memory; Software downloads 2008-03-03
Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testers: Microsoft is in the midst of a quest for new testers for some kind of new Windows Media Center product, which may or may not be connected to "Fiji," the next version of Windows Media Center Edition MCE. Late last week, Microsoft posted to its Connect private...; Tags: Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Media Center, Survey, Tester, Fiji, MCE Tester Survey, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Marketing Research, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-01-29
Testers get Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate build: Microsoft has begun rolling out to testers a near-final Release Candidate RC build of Windows XP Service Pack SP 3. Testers said they began pulling down the bits from Microsoft's private download site on November 18. Testers said the new XP SP3 build is...; Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, Tester, SP1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-11-19
SpiraTest (msi): For the project manager, it provides the ability to create, edit, and delete your project's requirements in a hierarchical organization that resembles a typical scope matrix. Each of your requirements is mapped to one or more test cases that can be used to validate that your functionality works as expected....; Tags: Tester, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Software downloads 2007-10-19
Microsoft releases beta of XP SP3 to Vista, Windows Server testers: Microsoft officials said at the end of August that they planned to release Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 to Microsoft Developer Network MSDN and TechNet testers within a couple weeks. It is now more than a month later. And it doesn't seem Microsoft has made good...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Tester, XP SP3, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-10-04
Windows Server 2008 RC0, Vista SP1: Back together again: Microsoft announced on September 24 that it is ready to release to testers both Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate RC 0 and Windows Vista Service Pack SP 1 beta. Testers had been expecting the new test builds of both Windows products to debut earlier this month. Microsoft said...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Tester, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-09-24
JSRegExp (gg): JSRegExp is regular expressions tester for JavaScript language. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Tester, JSRegExp, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2007-09-11
"Betas" just aren't betas anymore, now are they: Some in the blogosphere are jumping all over Google and its newly acquired GrandCentral Internet-based telephony service for not quite living up to their promise to give customers one number for life.Blogger Judi Sohn, one of the few that was treated in this manner, posts a note that she...; Tags: Beta Testing, Tester, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-20
Netvantage Functional Tester (exe): Netvantage Functional Tester, automated Web testing software, makes creating functional, regression, and acceptance test scripts quick and easy. Boasting its industry leading gui, Netvantage Function Tester allows your existing Q.A. testers to create reusable data driven Web automation test scripts / macros, without coding that could have only been created...; Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Tester, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing; Software downloads 2006-12-05
Free Love Compatibility Tester by: William R. Nabaza (exe): Free Love Compatibility Tester by: William R. Nabaza. Test the love between two people by entering their names below and then calculate their compatibility. Full names give the most accurate results.; Tags: Tester, Networking; Software downloads 2006-08-14

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DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released: Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...; Tags: Tool, E-mail Address, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-08-18
Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in beta* testing: Citrix recently released a beta test version of its next generation XenServer, code named "Orlando," which is expected to ship in September. Th next version will offer a variety of new features including automated high availability, support for the Xen hypervisor 3.2 and Windows Server 2008 guests, performance statistics,...; Tags: Performance, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-08-12
Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'?This isn't even strictly a Beta Tester issueMicrosoft realised that MCE systems just weren't flying out the door and then correctly perceived that it makes more sense to bundle it with Vista so that OEMs can either make a "home entertainment center"...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Fiji, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., beta tester, Windows future, MCE; Discussion threads 2008-08-05
Google about to launch new Translation service: It appears that Google has been working hard on a new human translation service that will hopefully make it easy for people to request translations of a document from a human. The new service, called Google Translation Center (the link still doesn't work), appears to be volunteer based, but...; Tags: Google Inc., Productivity, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-08-04
Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal: Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...; Tags: Symantec Corp., IP, Tool, Con, Katie Moussouris, Last HOPE, Wiki, Internet, Productivity, Security, Network Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-28