>>When will it be released?
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>I don't think it's been announced yet. RC2 is due out any day now.
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>I have been using RC1 on my dev machine for a few weeks now, and I love it. At least as stable for me as NT 4 SP5.

Erik,

RC2 has been been in the hands of Technet Plus/MSDN Universal Subscribers for at least a week. I've been too busy to install it, however.