Early customers purchased a "pioneer edition '' of the WordVision word processor for the IBM PC for $49.95. In 1984, Stephen Manes wrote that "in a brilliant marketing coup, Bruce and James Program Publishers managed to get people to pay for the privilege of testing the product. '' In September 2000 a boxed version of Apple 's Mac OS X Public Beta operating system was released. Microsoft 's release of community technology previews (CTPs) for Windows Vista, between September 2005 and May 2006. Throughout 2009 to 2011, Minecraft was in public beta. On December 29, 2014, all owners of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the Xbox One were able to download and play the Beta of Halo 5: Guardians for free through January 18, 2015. Users of the Beta were reminded via an in - game popup that the release was a Beta and could contain some glitches, and were encouraged to communicate them through the Halo series online community.
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