Microsoft Boston in beta

You've heard of Cairo, Chicago and Dayton. Well, Microsoft has addedBoston to its list of city-named beta tests. Unlike previous betas,however, Boston isn't an operating system, it's a suite of Internet development tools.According to Info World, Microsoft has shipped the Boston beta to a selectgroup of testers. Boston includes Internet Studio (now Visual InterDev,Visual C++ 5.0, Visual Basic 5.0, Visual FoxPro, Visual Source Safe, VisualJ++ and SQL Server 6.5. The entire package weighs in at a hefty 800 Mbof hard drive space and the market for such a beast is unclear