Microsoft expands Vista testing
Microsoft expands Vista testing: ZDNet Australia: News: Software: "Microsoft is launching a 'community technology preview' program for Vista, offering interim updates of the operating system in between its official beta releases. The company has increasingly been using such previews as a way to offer more frequent test builds to developers.
The first of the technology preview releases of Vista is being handed out to developers attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference here this week.
The company released Beta 1 of Vista in July. The final version of Vista, which has also been known by its Longhorn code name, is due out in the second half of next year.
Microsoft also offered developers a deeper look at the company's plans for the next version of Office, code-named Office 12. In May, the software giant outlined the broad areas it hopes to address with the new version of Office.
Office 12 is also slated for release in the second half of next year. The first test version is expected this fall.
'When these products come out in late 2006...it will be the largest marketing event we've ever had,' Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in his keynote speech on Tuesday, referring to the new versions of Office and Vista."
The first of the technology preview releases of Vista is being handed out to developers attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference here this week.
The company released Beta 1 of Vista in July. The final version of Vista, which has also been known by its Longhorn code name, is due out in the second half of next year.
Microsoft also offered developers a deeper look at the company's plans for the next version of Office, code-named Office 12. In May, the software giant outlined the broad areas it hopes to address with the new version of Office.
Office 12 is also slated for release in the second half of next year. The first test version is expected this fall.
'When these products come out in late 2006...it will be the largest marketing event we've ever had,' Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in his keynote speech on Tuesday, referring to the new versions of Office and Vista."
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