'Release candidate' pushed back to March, says site that nailed other ship dates
Microsoft Corp. has delayed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) by at least a month, and the company will now ship it to manufacturing sometime in May or June, according to a Web site that has accurately predicted Windows release dates in the past.
TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site that correctly pegged the release dates for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 in 2008, said that Microsoft will deliver a release candidate -- the final test version -- of Vista SP2 in March, a month later than the site had predicted earlier. Also, Microsoft will send the service pack to manufacturers and out for retail copy duplication at some point in the second quarter of 2009, not in April as originally thought.
Vista SP2 will be released for download from the Web at an undetermined date after Microsoft ships the service pack to resellers. In the past, Microsoft has had both short and long lag times between the two dates.
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Microsoft Corp. has delayed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) by at least a month, and the company will now ship it to manufacturing sometime in May or June, according to a Web site that has accurately predicted Windows release dates in the past.
TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site that correctly pegged the release dates for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 in 2008, said that Microsoft will deliver a release candidate -- the final test version -- of Vista SP2 in March, a month later than the site had predicted earlier. Also, Microsoft will send the service pack to manufacturers and out for retail copy duplication at some point in the second quarter of 2009, not in April as originally thought.
Vista SP2 will be released for download from the Web at an undetermined date after Microsoft ships the service pack to resellers. In the past, Microsoft has had both short and long lag times between the two dates.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126470&source=NLT_PM
