This is hopefully going to be a smooth service release
Sure, hopefully
Here's an [incomplete] list of the most important changes:
Most users won't test it if it gets back to 6.0.1289.
The UI of the new version also includes the avast! Market, a new way to get info (and potentially try/buy) other avast products. This section can be hidden by disabling the avast! recommendation features in the avast! Community settings.
The content is not final yet - please take it like this.
I've said it before. Marketing is a good way to push forward the company, but the technical details need to be close enough to the goal, or it backfires.
Download links:
Well, the beta is already available in several repositories, but still, don't you think you should stop (or at least reduce) this faulty distribution?
You can either install from scratch, or over an existing installation of avast (any version).
Sure we "can", but we shouldn't. Even if users skip the fact that the next update is going backwards to 6.0.1289, the first *update* to 6.0.1351 is not really an "update" when all the previous settings are lost.
I suppose that "over an existing installation" could be interpreted like "overwriting", and not as "updating" (which is probably what most users would understand and expect).
Users of the previous beta can also use the normal in-product updater.
Even that doesn't seem to be correct.
To be clear, I am posting these comments so to make it better. The whole point of a beta (or post alpha?) is to test it. The reports are clear enough: users can't *really* USE it as intended or expected, hence can't be REALLY tested.
Is it "
really" necessary to suggest to stop the needless spreading of this beta, ASAP?