Wondering how people give softwares free of cost to you?You would get a clear picture of beta testing and why people give full version softwares free of cost to you at the end of this article.
Testing is an important phase of every product launched to make it fit for consumer use and to make it fool proof. For example a before launching a particaular model of a car the car manufacturer produce hundreds of vehicles and are tested on extreme conditions to check their quality, the feedback given from the drivers of these vehicles are corrected for the final launch of the product.You may be wondering what i am trying to say because i promised to tell you about getting free softwares. Beta testing is similar to what i have said above , here when you register as a beta tester you are given a fully built software free of cost to be tested by you on your computer .All you have to do is to report to the manufacturer if you find any bugs in the software. Even Windows vista was given to beta testers all over the world to test and get feedback! You get everything then why to buy softwares ? here is the catch a software is given to beta testers till the launch of the particular product in the market,i.e once the beta testing is over you have to uninstall it from your computer. But these programs generally last for months and new beta versions of the product is released immediately after that. I am a beta tester registered in mcafee and i am currently using the beta version of the mcafee total protection which would be launched in the future. So i enjoy the latest softwares before others and that too without paying money.Sounds good (rather great) isnt it? The negative side being that the software provider does not take any responsibilities for any damage of data etc., in your pc!
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