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Why are MS betas fast, but the releases slow?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Recently I've been reading about Vista's slowness on even high powered machines. I played with the Vista release candidate early this year and found it to be quite speedy on my low-spec notebook (768MB RAM, 1.5GHz Celeron). I remember the same situation with the Windows XP release candidates some years ago: they ran fast on modest hardware of the time, yet the final release arrived and ran slowly on the same hardware. The question is: What are Microsoft doing between RC and final releases to pour treacle into the works? Some people I've mentioned this to have suggested a conspiracy theory (duh) that Microsoft deliberately enhances the RC release to build hype amongst journalists who see it, but why can't they just released the "enhancements" with the final build?"
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Firefox 3 Antiphishing sends your URLs to Google 1

Submitted by
iritant
iritant writes "As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso or the latest version of Firefox, is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default."

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