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Update on Vista release dates

Gill Cleeren

Software | Vista

August 15, 2006

Sources at Microsoft say that RC1 (release candidate 1) is to be released on September 7th (or very soon thereafter), and not in August, as rumors said it would be.
Microsoft has put build 5520 as RC1, and that build is to be released to testers and the public after the Labor Day weekend in the US, which is Septermber 4th.

What's more important, is that MS is still set to deliver the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) on October 25 of shortly after. Despite all rumors, speculations and so on, it seems that the great Vista release is still on track for its release.

Let's hope we don't have to adjust these dates, and that Vista, together with WPF, WCP and all the rest will be here in time!

Posted on: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:22:59 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00) | Comments [4]

Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:41:36 AM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

My guess is that build 5520 of the RC1 branch will be available to beta testers on Monday 21st August and that it will be globally available in the CPP about two weeks later.

Gabriel Lozano-Morán

Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:11:25 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

My guess is still September... only 2 weeks to go this month, with another test release being released in the next couple of days (which is not the RC1).

Let's see (wanna gamble ;) ??)

gill

Friday, August 18, 2006 4:11:54 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

They started the RC1 branch with build 5504 created on 4th August, having one nightly build this means that if RC1 is really build 5520 it will be build the night from this saturday on sunday.

Gabriel Lozano-Morán

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:04:09 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

It looks like it was the build from this weekend ;-) http://blogs.msdn.com/emesas/archive/2006/08/23/714839.aspx

Gabriel Lozano-Morán

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