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Vista One Step Closer To Release
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
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 Release Candidate 1, issued on September 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.
On September 1, Platforms and Services Co-President Jim Allchin announced RC1 was available for download from Microsoft TechNet. "The operating system is in great shape with RC1, but there’s still a lot of testing to do," Allchin wrote.
Sven Hallauer, director of release management for Windows Vista at Microsoft (Quote, Chart), was surprisingly urgent in an audio blog posted earlier this week that beta testers immediately get to work pounding on the software, so Microsoft can meet its own internal milestones. Vista One Step Closer To Release
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