"We're trying to get as many testers as we possibly can get," Ralston said. The first two beta versions and other community technology preview versions have been released only to select testers, which include some of Microsoft's early adopter customers, developers and internal Microsoft users.
Beta 3, like a recently released private test version, is "feature complete," Ralston said, including new features
just added to the program such as the PowerShell command line interface and several new server roles. Microsoft
released Beta 2 of Longhorn Server to developers last May. The next milestone, after Beta 3, would be a near-final "release candidate" version, Ralston said.
