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Windows 8 distribution takes a page from Linux

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[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link.
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You, yes you, can now download a copy of Windows 8.
This marks the first time that Microsoft has released a pre-beta
version of one of their flagship programs to the general public. I
wonder where they got that idea.

Could it be from Linux?

After all Linux distributions has been making early versions
available to the public since Linux started 20-years ago.


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