How can I get Internet Explorer 7.0 beta?

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Its not available at the download center and I saw something about joining a
developers (MSDN?) group. Does it cost money to join or to try the new IE?
 
needlove said:
Its not available at the download center and I saw something about joining
a developers (MSDN?) group. Does it cost money to join or to try the new
IE?
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MSDN costs real money...such as $10,947 from MS for a high level single user
subscription.
 
needlove said:
Its not available at the download center and I saw something about joining
a developers (MSDN?) group. Does it cost money to join or to try the new
IE?
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$699 for the Visual Studio Professional Edition with MSDN Professional
$2499 for Visual Studio Professional Edition with MSDN Premium

from Microsoft's order page; I started from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ and drilled down.

So much are YOU going to pay to get an beta version of IE? What do you
really think is so critical that you need to acquire unreleased software?
What do you think IE7 will give you, and that you cannot achieve with
existing free or paid 3rd party software available now?
 
The correct way to proceed is to spend a year here answering questions, get
nominated for MVP and then get the MSDN subscription free...

If you are interested enough to consider beta testing you could become a
valuable member of the community.

Charlie
 
Charlie Tame said:
The correct way to proceed is to spend a year here answering questions,
get nominated for MVP and then get the MSDN subscription free...
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Whoa! You mean if I become an MVP that I could get an MSDN subscription for
free? ARGH! Someone was going to nominate me for MVP but I didn't feel the
need to append the MVP moniker to my username, so I told them to nominate
someone else that might want the title. ARGH! Screwed myself again (and,
no, that is NOT a pleasurable experience).
 
You don't HAVE to "append" MVP to your username.
Whoa! You mean if I become an MVP that I could get an MSDN subscription
for free? ARGH! Someone was going to nominate me for MVP but I didn't
feel the need to append the MVP moniker to my username, so I told them
to nominate someone else that might want the title. ARGH! Screwed
myself again (and, no, that is NOT a pleasurable experience).
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The correct way to proceed is to spend a year here answering questions,
get nominated for MVP and then get the MSDN subscription free...
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And the great thing about doing it this way, you don't even have to post
CORRECT answers. Just lots of answers.
 
NoStop said:
And the great thing about doing it this way, you don't even have to post
CORRECT answers. Just lots of answers.
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Actually that is not true either, but never mind :)

Charlie
 
Then I suggest you get busy and accept nomination next time. Unfortunately
right after I got the title my job changed leaving me unable to spend
anything like the time here I was previously able to do. It's a little
better now but it's still not encouraging to half answer questions then be
missing for 2 days :)

I mean a lot of the software is not usable to the average user, but having a
$1000 package to play with is something you just couldn't justify laying out
the money for, and you get a better understanding of that bigger MS picture.

And I am going to make it to Redmond to the next convention if it kills me
(or I have to kill someone) :)

Personally I think these groups help MS and users so it is win win for
everyone. Imagine how many support techs MS would need to deal with all
these queries, and how many phone lines and how many.....

Charlie
 
What better way to test new software than to distribute it to the masses --
sit back and wait for the results to start pouring in. Notwithstanding
lawsuits it would save money from having to pay testers.

I just became curious about it when replying to a person's brag --err
question in which they stated they were using IE 7.0. I have enough bugs of
my own to weed out without adding to it. Thanks for the information.
 
I think the MVP program is one of the few examples of a win win situation
left in the world.

(Course at least half of the win part is not so certain if all the hours
spent on here add up to a divorce :)

I actually downloaded IE7 but AFAIK it is for XP only at this time and since
I switched to 2003 for testing purposes I rarely boot the XP side...

2003 is "Too secure" out of the box for the average person's "Browsing" -
quite rightly so of course, but I'm very pleased with it so far.

Charlie
 
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