What is BETA?? ie Yahoo Answers (Beta).?
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"beta" means it's a test version.
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Old yahoo mail. \nThe beta has to load every time I try to open it and sometimes it is really slow. Plus if you try to click on an email link, it takes forever to open up the compose page.\nThe format sucks, there is too much junk all over the page. \nI am sticking with the old mail
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BETA is a working project that is not finished. It is a test to see if people like it and after many desicions it is decided to become offical. Java on the other hand is a computer language that is a software to provide programs that use Java. None of them are better than each other.
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many of the yahoo.com users are also still not on beta. yahoo is still testing the beta services. i've a yahoo.com account.. but i'm not on beta.. guess v'll have to wait until yahoo releases beta worldwide.
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Why? It's a lot less stupid than a lot of the questions being asked here.\n\nI'll ask you one. Do you think Yahoo Answers will come out of beta or do you think we'll all get bored with this before long, go and do something useful with our lives and Yahoo will recycle the electrons into something useful?
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I also hate the Beta page.  When it pops up I simply clear the cookies in the browser.....this clears the beta page and gives me back the old.  I just wish it were a permanent solution...but I am just happy that this does work.
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The links belo will help u understand better\n\n\nA beta version or beta release represents the first version of the software that has passed system testing and regression testing. These tests were performed in a test environment using hardware and data constructed for the purposes of testing. The beta build is now ready for a beta test, in which it is tested through a limited roll-out to a production environment using live data and real users. The beta test is closely monitored by the software testers.\n\nSome development teams use the term beta informally to denote build of the software that is stable enough to be useful for internal demonstrations and previews to select customers, but not yet ready for release. Some developers refer to this stage as a preview, as a technical preview (TP) or as an early access. Often this stage begins when the developers announce a feature freeze on the product, indicating that no more features will be added to this version of the product and only software issues, or bugs, will be removed. Beta versions stand at an intermediate step in the full development cycle. Developers release them to a group of beta testers (sometimes the general public) for a user test. The testers report any bugs that they found and sometimes minor features they would like to see in the final version.\n\nWhen a beta becomes available to the general public it is often widely used by the technologically savvy and those familiar with previous versions as though it were the finished product. Usually developers of freeware or open-source betas release them to the general public while proprietary betas go to a relatively small group of testers. In February 2005, ZDNet published an article about the recent phenomenon of a beta version often staying for years and being used as if it were in production-level [1]. It notes that Gmail and Google News, for example, have been in beta for a long period of time and are not expected to drop the beta status despite the fact that they have been widely used. This technique may also allow a developer to delay offering full support and/or responsibility for remaining issues. Recipients of highly proprietary betas may have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.\n\nAs the second major stage in the development cycle, following the alpha stage, it is named after the Greek letter beta, the second letter in the Greek alphabet.\n\nsome examples of BETA\nGmail.com\nGoogle talk\nGoogle Suggest\nlive.com\nMicrosoft AntiSpyware
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http://dhvrm.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-is-beta-testing.html
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A test for a computer product prior to commercial release. Beta testing is the last stage of testing, and normally can involve sending the product to beta test sites outside the company for real-world exposure or offering the product for a free trial download over the Internet. Beta testing is often preceded by a round of testing called alpha testing.
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beta basically means it hasn't been properly tested and it's a work in progress it will have bugs and problems. stick with the old faithful
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I have little problem with this beta system of Yahoo/Answers.  When finalized I’m have confidence it will be acceptable.
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Beta is a name used by software developers that want to test their programs out first- to see if there any bugs present in the programs that can be fixed. One can assume that they use the term "beta" because it's second-rate (or not quite the perfection they seek that is called "alpha").
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Try seraching MS site to register for a Beta evaluation program :-|
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You mean how do you get here after you log onto Yahoo? Click on answers beta, in the upper right hand corner of the screen. When you get to this screen, click on anything and it will come up on your screen.
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A beta is a trial or pre release version that is being tested usually by volunteers. If can be prone to difficulties while the programmers are debugging it.\n\nYou get to try the newest things in return for running a Beta.
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The public beta release of Yahoo Answers happened on 8th December, 2005. But the site had been in testing for the since August. That is why there are answeres as old as 5 months ago.
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Any time a program is in Beta testing, there will be problems.  That's why it's still in Beta..... to see what it will or won't do.  Personally, I won't install anything that's in Beta and I usually wait at least 6 months after it comes out of Beta testing before I'll install it.  Gives real world folks a chance to find all the bugs the lab missed.