Microsoft ends week of delays with a new Vista test build
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
It's not the next Community Technology Preview build, slated to go to two million testers. But Microsoft is releasing Friday to selected testers a brand-new build of Vista on which testers are counting for more stability.
Microsoft is characterizing the newly minted build as an EDW, or External Developer Workstation, build. Microsoft releases these builds -- which are typically rougher and less thoroughly tested than Community Technology Preview (CTP) test builds - to a smaller, selected set of testers on a regular basis.
The next wide-scale test build of Vista, originally christened the "April CTP" or the "Consumer CTP," is now expected by testers to arrive in May.