Microsoft posted for download on October 6, as anticipated, a new test create of Vista, No. 5744, which the business has christened Release Candidate (RC) two.The corporation also sent a be aware the identical day to its Technology Adoption Program (TAP) partners who are testing Workplace 2007,
Windows 7 Starter, notifying them that Office 2007 is just weeks absent from release to manufacturing (RTM). “We are pleased to announce that the 2007 Office procedure will be released to production (RTM) in the next few weeks,
microsoft Office 2010 Activation,” read the notice to TAP testers, a copy of which is available on the Activewin.com Web site. Microsoft is planning to shut down the Workplace Preview site, from which testers have been accessing beta downloads, on October 25, according to the TAP be aware. On October 28, support for Office 2007 products will transition from the Beta support newsgroups to Microsoft Customer Service and support. The BetaPlace Web site and support newsgroups for Workplace 2007 will close down on October 30. And the SharePoint team beta sites will be decommissioned on October 31.On the Vista front, Microsoft released the following statement Friday:"Inline with the distribution of previous interim releases, Microsoft is distributing this (RC2) create to a select number of Customer Preview Plan (CPP) participants,
Office 2007 Professional Key, in addition to the regular distribution to TechBeta, TechNet,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, TAP and MSDN."Microsoft officials said last week that the October test build of Vista would be the last broadscale beta of the product released before Vista goes gold. While some corporation watchers have continued to remain skeptical that Microsoft would be able to meet its goals of releasing Vista and Workplace 2007 to production before the end of this calendar year,
Office Ultimate 2007, it looks like Microsoft is on track to do so. Microsoft officials have said to expect Vista to be available to small business customers some time in November. Workplace 2007 is expected to be available to online business users around the same time. Both products are expected to launch and be available via all sales channels in late January 2007.