Windows Vista back on the monthly release bandwagon
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Now that the lackluster Beta 2 release is out the door, Microsoft intends to ship monthly builds to testers in the form of Community Technical Preview builds, the first of which should appear any day now (they're in the 54xx build number range). Meanwhile, consumers who signed up for the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) and installed and activated Vista Beta 2 will be eligible to receive the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of Vista when it ships in, oh, say, August. The idea here is to put these pre-release versions of the product in front of as many eyeballs as possible during the time period where Microsoft is doing performance and fit-and-finish work. Hey, it can only get better.