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Originally posted by Timothy003
To me, security is very essential, so I don't really get annoyed by the messages; instead, I feel safer.

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Although that's quite true, there is one major thing you forget: such products need to be VERY accurate and correct, otherwise they give a false feeling of security, no matter how essential you may find 'security'.

Despite popular believe, the biggest problem are not virusses or trojans or whatever, but the false security feeling that many people (will) have by installing such beta programs or programs which often give false alerts or don't detect anything.

Because of that, such products (even if they are beta) should not be put in public (aka: no public beta testing either), IMHO.

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Originally posted by Timothy003
You guys are reacting too violently on this new beta product; if you think about it, this public beta was just released not a while ago. Maybe it really isn't good now, but remember, it's still only a beta!

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It should never have been put in public in the first place. It should be private, only accessable to people who really know what they are doing and able to properly beta test it.

Yes, but they did choose to make it a public beta. What matters is whether or not you want to use it!

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Originally posted by Timothy003

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by Timothy003
Yes, but they did choose to make it a public beta. What matters is whether or not you want to use it!

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The entire point of making it public is so that people who WANT to use it can use it without having to go threw the proccess of getting into the beta (Not to mention to get more users using it). But as CookieRevised said, it should only be used for those people who know advanced computing.

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Originally posted by Timothy003
What matters is whether or not you want to use it!

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People will just download it without knowing what BETA software is. If the software is too poor to work properly, it shouldn't be released.

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Originally posted by Anubis
If the software is too poor to work properly, it shouldn't be released.

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It shouldn't, but it has. People need to realise the cheap can be very nasty.

Microsoft probably released it just to get the ideas.live.com page full. ^^

Just kidding , Timothy

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Originally posted by Anubis
it's Microsoft after all, they usually do try and make their software as good as they can. The exception being IE

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Originally posted by joe cool

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Originally posted by John Anderton

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Originally posted by tehGspider
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Btw .... this is ooooooollllllllddddd news. I tested it and put up screen shots on my site about a month or so back

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the public beta was just released.

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But i aint a tester and i got it for free testing back then