It's alright. It's still a beta. I am sure it will be fixed in release version.

David,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I checked with BOL and the old outer join syntax is deprecated. I also checked the compatability level on the database and it was set...

Thanks for replying David!

It might be desired to drop the old stuff but there could still be plenty of old code around that would break making many people unhappy