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The BUILD conference this week (preview of Windows 8) is generating plenty of questions.
Reference question is here.
While generally of interest of developers, I don't care much for questions that are this speculative and inevitably become irrelevant within a year or less. Is it okay to close them? What close reason should be preferred?
I think there are two different kinds of questions here:
frobnicate correctly work in Android 4.0 Beta?I think #1 is fine, even if the correctness might change with time (that can happen with all software).
And #2 is bad, but not because it's about preview- or beta-software, but because it's speculative and doesn't have definite answers.
In my opinion questions about preview- or beta-software are not inherently wrong.
Use too localized when the usefulness and relevance of questions becomes obsolete as nobody would be left working on the beta version if the full fleshed product is out there. They only serve to clutter the search results and muddy the signal.
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For speculative questions and those that grab at will anything about peering into the crystal ball, change it up between not a real question
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or not constructive
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