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Mozilla releases second Firefox 3 release candidate
News Mozilla has released the second release candidate for its upcoming Firefox 3 web browser, ahead of the full release in mid-June. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback...
[June 5, 2008, 12:33]
Ubuntu Karmic Koala gets release candidate
News Canonical, sponsors of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, issued the release candidate for the Karmic Koala version on Thursday. The release comes only a week before the scheduled arrival of the final version of Ubuntu 9.10 on 29 October.
[October 23, 2009, 12:55]
Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate published
News The Ubuntu project has published a release candidate, or final testing version, for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user," said...
[April 17, 2009, 8:46]
Third Firefox release candidate imminent
News The third and potentially final release candidate of Firefox 1.5 is fast approaching launch, according to Mozilla Europe on Thursday morning. Release candidate three will happen very soon — in the next few hours or days," said Tristan Nitot, the...
[November 17, 2005, 11:50]
Latest Firefox release candidate is out
News Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1, which came out earlier this week, is a preview of the upcoming version of the browser. Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 offers several new features, ranging from navigation changes to increased support for the Mac OS...
[November 4, 2005, 9:45]
Microsoft makes Vista SP1 release candidate public
News Microsoft has made the latest version of Vista's Service Pack 1 release candidate available for download to the general public, after initially restricting it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week.
[January 14, 2008, 7:51]
Microsoft ready with IE8 release candidate
News Microsoft on Monday released a near-final release candidate version of Internet Explorer 8, the next version of its web browser. In an interview, IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch said there will be little change between the release candidate...
[January 27, 2009, 7:33]
Microsoft readies Silverlight release candidate
News Microsoft is set to release a string of web tools this week, including Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate and a second beta of Visual Studio 2008. Silverlight 1.0 is scheduled for final release in the autumn, and Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net...
[July 27, 2007, 16:42]
First release candidate of Firefox 3 arrives
News The first release candidate of Firefox 3 was made available to developers on Friday, ahead of the browser's scheduled full release in June. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) features tweaks to the user interface across all operating systems...
[May 19, 2008, 12:15]
Windows 7 XP Mode enters Release Candidate status
News Microsoft has announced that XP Mode, the Windows 7 add-on that will allow users with the proper hardware to run a virtual version of Windows XP within Windows 7, has entered Release Candidate status.
[August 5, 2009, 8:24]
Firefox 1.0 release candidate launched
News The Mozilla Foundation on Thursday produced the first release candidate for its Firefox browser, which will be available in up to 24 different languages and includes around 250 bug fixes, according to the SpreadFirefox Web site.
[October 28, 2004, 16:49]
First Mozilla release candidate on the way
News Mozilla has created a branch of the ongoing repository of code, or "tree", which will turn into Mozilla's first release candidate, RC1. Mozilla, the long-awaited open-source version of the Netscape browser, is to release its first beta-test version...
[April 11, 2002, 12:18]
Microsoft launches Windows Server 2008 RC1
News As Microsoft starts the final countdown to what it is billing as the "biggest launch wave in the company's history", it has announced that customers can now download Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1.
[December 6, 2007, 11:32]
Opera 10 nears completion
News Opera Software has completed its first release candidate of Opera 10, which the company says has better performance, a Turbo mode for slow internet connections, support for a variety of web standards such as web fonts, and improvements to the...
[August 26, 2009, 11:14]
Pirated Windows 7 RC builds botnet
News A pirated version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) infected with a Trojan horse has created a botnet with tens of thousands of bots under its control, according to researchers at security firm Damballa.
[May 13, 2009, 17:23]
Windows 7 RC makes early public debut
News The release candidate of Windows 7 has made its public debut early. The release candidate version, officially build 7100, is expected to be the last major public test of the product before it is finalised.
[May 5, 2009, 8:21]
Windows 7 RC1 made available for download
News Microsoft made the first release candidate of Windows 7 available for free download on Thursday. However, Painell revealed on Wednesday that two features present in the beta — a built-in Bluetooth audio driver and the ability to have a guest...
[April 30, 2009, 14:00]
Countdown: WindowsMe marches on
News Microsoft continued its countdown toward the next consumer release of Windows with this week's delivery to testers of the final release candidate of its final beta. The build issued by Microsoft to WindowsMe testers on Thursday -- 2499.3 -- is...
[April 3, 2000, 9:13]
Near-final Thunderbird 3 is released
News Mozilla Messaging has issued the first release candidate of Thunderbird 3, the software it hopes will significantly improve how people read, write, catalogue and search their email. A final version of Thunderbird 3 is expected not long after the...
[November 26, 2009, 8:44]
Microsoft on Hyper-V: 'We're virtually there'
News Microsoft has reached the feature-complete release-candidate stage for its Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualisation software for Windows Server 2008, meaning that it now resides in the middle ground between beta-stage development and final release.
[March 19, 2008, 14:36]
