I Think We Need A Thread For The 2016 Public Beta

According to the link below the Public Beta of Bitdefender 2016 will be available on July 28th. I am awaiting confirmation that it will be compatible with Windows 10 on July 29th. Official release date of Bitdefender 2016 is scheduled for August 31, 2015

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Rohugh

Hi,

From that link you provided it says the beta is already compatible with Windows 10, plus I have seen posts elsewhere saying it works fine.

Ro.

Nesivos

Hi,

From that link you provided it says the beta is already compatible with Windows 10, plus I have seen posts elsewhere saying it works fine.

Ro.

Take it for what it is worth but I just received this from BD Support

On Tue, 21st Jul 2015 at 4:02 pm, Lupu Victoria wrote: Dear XXXX,

Thank you for your e-mail.

Generally speaking, we do not encourage any of our customers to install the new software on Windows 10 till the official announcement of the compatibility with the OS Windows 10.

let me know if additional information needs to be provided.

Best regards,

Victoria Lupu

Bitdefender Technical Support

I don't think the comment about Windows 10 on the BD 2016 Public Beta webpage is an official announcement of BD 2016 Public Beta being compatible with Windows 10. I think the intent is there but remember this is a two fold Beta. 1. Public Beta testers willing to take the risk of Windows 10 compatiblity issues with BD 2016 Public Beta will be testing BD 2016 Public Beta for compatibility with Windows 10. 2. Public Beta testers of BD 2016 Public Beta will be testing BD 2016 Public Beta for bugs regardless of the OS they have it running on.

I can not comment on what you might have heard or read elsewhere regarding the BD 2016 Public Beta being compatible with Windows 10.

The point being BD Support at this time is recommending that Public Beta Testers do not test BD 2016 Public Beta on Windows 10 systems (Maybe they don't want W10 compatiblity support tickets <img class= " /> ), though it appears that webpage is encouraging it. I will be testing BD 2016 Public Beta on a Windows 7-SP1 computer but not on my W8.1 or my W10 computers and will wait for the offical release of BDTS 2016 before I install on it my W8.1 computers. After that I will upgrade my Windows 8.1 computers to Windows 10. I will not install BDTS 2016 Public Beta on my current W10 computer until after BDTS 2016 is offically released at which time I am sure that annoucement will include BD 2016 being compatible with Windows 10.

Truth is my Windows 10 10240 computer is running great and I really don't want to risk mucking it up with a Beta AV product even if it is from BD. Especially in light of the email I just received from BD Support. I don't mind taking the risk of mucking up my W7-SP1 computer with the BD 2016 Public Beta. If by some chance it does totally blow out that computer it is okay with me since I have been looking for an excuse to replace that old computer <img class= " /> As long as it is running good I can not justify replacing it with a newer computer.