Microsoft to Vista testers: 'Get going'
InternetNews | at | by Mike
If you weren't feeling like an unhired beta tester before, Microsoft is going to make you feel like one now. In an audio blog posting, the coordinator of Vista's development cycle implored testers to be "aggressive" in testing the forthcoming Release Candidate 1.
Sven Hallauer, director of release management for Windows Vista at Microsoft, talked about coordinating milestones between the 5,000 engineers working on Vista in an audio blog posted earlier this week.
Vista is currently at what's being called "pre-RC1," or Release Candidate 1. A release candidate is typically software in the final stretch before release, well past the beta test stage and nearly good enough to ship but in need of one or more final shakedowns.