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Vista moves up to RC1 branch!

Gill Cleeren

Microsoft | Microsoft | Vista

August 10, 2006

Yep, you read it right! Despite many websites and bloggers calling, dare I say, begging for beta 3, Vista is now moving to the RC1 branch. Microsoft did not change their roadmap, so beta2 will effectively be followed by RC1.

Last Friday, MS made a new branch for the RC1 milestone, known as "vista_rc1" (not very original :-p ), and began with build 5504.16385.vista_rc1.
Rumor has it that by the end of August, RC1 should be upon us, and another CTP can be expected between now and RC1.

Some new icons are also moved into this build, as well as a new weather gadget.

Posted on: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:46:13 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00) | Comments [1]

Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:46:03 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

About the August RC1 there were several hints. On the download pages of the DirectX SDK which was released a couple of days ago for example there was the following sentence:

"Samples and applications built with the Direct3D ® 10 Technology Preview in the August 2006 DirectX ® SDK require Windows ® Vista ™ RC1 to run. The Windows Vista RC1 will be available to MSDN ® subscribers."

So my guess is that we don't have to wait till the end of the month for RC 1. With a Release Candidate you say that your product is stable enough for RTM but then you go into a period where you want to make sure it actually is good enough for RTM. Also with a RC you would normally want to target more desktop computers than during Beta stage but as I have understood it Microsoft has no intentions at this point to make Windows Vista RC1 more publicly like they did with the CPP. Although that can change...

Gabriel Lozano-Morán

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2/8/2012 8:59:40 PM

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