If we want to call that “Hall’s Law of When Betas Aren’t Such a Bad Thing,” we probably ought to come up with a corollary law just for Microsoft of late: “When beta testing involves buying software ...

Last week, we featured a roundup on the happenings at Networld Interop in Las Vegas, taking most of our time to focus on hardware announcements. This week, I want to zero in on a chat I had with a ...