>>>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.
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>RC2 beta is out, with a 444 day life span; you should have received it as a part of a MSDN Universal, or Professional, subscription in September.

Got it since this message. With all this catchng up to do, how are you choosing which threads to bother with? :-)