What happens when program goes Alpha?

I still have not been able to find anything that tells me
what happens once the program expires in July?

Will it become a stand alone program that we will have to
pay for or will it become a part of the OS?

Alpha?
You mean Gold.
Microsoft has stated it will be free to licensed home users of Windows XP.
Now businesses...that may be a different story.

Hopefully another Beta or even Gold will be released before the current
build expires.
AFAIK, it will always be standalone.

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"R L Smith" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I still have not been able to find anything that tells me
> what happens once the program expires in July?
>
> Will it become a stand alone program that we will have to
> pay for or will it become a part of the OS?

There are plans for 2 editions from what I know so far. The one we are
currently running in beta will be made available to all licensed Windows
users for free once it has been finalised. Another Edition for Enterprise
Environments is currently in the works with features such as Central
Management and Group Policy support.

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"R L Smith" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c5f01c53181$9b2b3710$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I still have not been able to find anything that tells me
> what happens once the program expires in July?
>
> Will it become a stand alone program that we will have to
> pay for or will it become a part of the OS?

"R L Smith" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c5f01c53181$9b2b3710$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I still have not been able to find anything that tells me
> what happens once the program expires in July?
>
> Will it become a stand alone program that we will have to
> pay for or will it become a part of the OS?


A product does not go "alpha" after being in its "beta" phase. Alpha is
internal testing performed within the author's company by their
programmers or by alpha testers. Beta is when the product is released
but under the caveat that it may not perform at 100% and the users are
expected to provide feedback to correct what should be minor problems
with the product (if there are *known* critical problems then the
product doesn't get out of the alpha phase). So the order goes: alpha,
beta, and released.

The released version will be free but only for the consumer version.
There is also promised an enterprise version that will cost money (it
will have features that you probably don't understand but are critical
for deployment and management in a corporate environment with hundreds
or thousands of employees to support).

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>I still have not been able to find anything that tells me
>what happens once the program expires in July?
>
>Will it become a stand alone program that we will have to
>pay for or will it become a part of the OS?
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