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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]
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]
XP SP3 Release Candidate, Er, Released
Blog Season's greetings from Microsoft, in the shape of a release candidate for Windows XP service pack 3. This pre-release software is provided for testing purposes only. Microsoft recommends that you have a backup of your data prior to installing any...
[December 19, 2007, 10:35]
Windows Vista Support Webcast: Windows Vista Beta And Windows Vista Release Candidate 1
White Papers This Webcast discusses expectations for the Microsoft Windows Vista Beta software and the Microsoft Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) software. This Webcast discusses reasons to install Windows Vista RC1.
[November 23, 2006, 23:00]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
Near-final Version Of Vista Announced
News Microsoft on Friday issued Release Candidate 1 of Windows Vista, a near-final test version of the oft-delayed operating system. The release candidate is available to some technical beta and corporate testers now and will be made available next week...
[September 4, 2006, 8:40]
Test Version Of .Net Server On Tap
News Microsoft on Thursday is expected to issue the second release candidate for Windows .Net Server 2003, as the product slowly advances toward its scheduled April release date. Availability of release candidate 2 marks an important milestone on...
[December 5, 2002, 14:08]
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]
Think Vulnerabilities Only Happen In IE? Think Again
Talkback "In fact, troubles for the increasingly popular browser are coming so fast and furious that mozillaZine has reported that a new Firefox release candidate has already replaced the Firefox release candidate 1.0.3, which became available on April 5.
[April 14, 2005, 18:53]
Torvalds Seeks Linux Testers This Christmas
News Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the maintainer of its development kernel, appealed on Saturday for people to test the latest release candidate of the Linux kernel. Linux 2.6.15-rc7", Torvalds asked people to use their free time over the...
[December 28, 2005, 17:15]
Service Pack 2 Inches Closer To Release
News The company issued Release Candidate 2 of Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- a mouthful that amounts to a host of improvements designed to make PC users more likely to employ stronger security settings on their machines.
[June 15, 2004, 8:50]
64-bit Windows Nearly With Us
News The company said it has reached the "release candidate" stage for Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003. Microsoft reiterated that all three products are slated for final release in the first half of next year, with a second release candidate in...
[December 8, 2004, 8:10]
Windows XP Nears The Finish Line
News The timing of Release Candidate 2 is in some ways unusual. The company on Saturday will issue Windows XP Release Candidate 2 -- the expected final testing version -- Microsoft Group Vice President Jim Allchin said on Friday during a media...
[July 30, 2001, 8:54]
Key Testing Version Of Windows XP Released
News However, the decision to pull Smart Tags came too late for their removal from the first release candidate. Despite the turmoil created by Thursday's appeals court ruling, the software company completed Windows XP Release Candidate 1 days ahead of...
[July 2, 2001, 10:33]
Microsoft Shuffles Nearer X64 Support
News Microsoft said it has finished "Release Candidate 2" of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, which also serves as the core for Windows Server 2003 x64 edition and Windows XP Professional x64 edition, with all three products set to be released...
[February 9, 2005, 8:45]
