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News Analysis. How ready is Windows 7 ?? Ready enough so there will be no Beta 2. Microsoft now plans to go directly from Beta 1 to release candidate.

Can you say Windows is shipping sooner than later? Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, broke the news in a blog post time-stamped Midnight EST that popped up in my RSS feeds at noon. He writes:

The next milestone for the development of Windows 7 is the Release Candidate or "RC." Historically the Release Candidate has signaled "we're pretty close and we want people to start testing the release, especially because all the features are done." As we have said before, with Windows 7 we chose a slightly different approach which we were clear up front about and are all now experiencing together and out in the open.

Anyone else remember when a Windows version went from beta directly to RC? I sure as hell don't. Now contrast Steven's statement to Microsoft BS in November 2005. The company suspended monthly Windows Vista CTPs (Community Technology Previews) after just two releases. The ridiculous assertion: that Vista development was running ahead of schedule. A few months later, Microsoft delayed Vista's launch, missing Christmas PC sales.

Now this is running ahead of schedule. The move from beta to RC, just the announcement of it, shows Microsoft's confidence in Seven where it is. Microsoft also is putting its partner ecosystem on notice. Get ready, Seven is coming soon. Something else: Today's blog offers tacit advice to customers to begin Seven testing now, rather than upgrade from Windows XP to Vista. Steven won't directly say this; no sane Microsoft executive would say something to freeze Windows PC sales. But the schedule timing should be clear enough to IT organizations planning to buy new PCs with Vista rather than Windows 7.
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; http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/windows_7/next_windows_7_milestone_release_candidate.html

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well, if they release it, I won't be able to buy it so it makes no difference Cheesy Grin (sparkly
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