WinSupersite今天更新了他们得到的开发周期表,我们可以看到改动并不太大,Longhorn的计划发布日期仍然是2006年.不过既然声明时间还有一年左右,那么按照微软的习惯,我们可以把眼光再放远点,不过让人感到比较激动的是最近的一个Beta1版本将在3月16日发布,这可是个好消息,呵呵,废话不多说,先来看列表.Longhorn Beta 1 code complete
March 16, 2005
Longhorn Beta 1 internal release and domain rollout
April 2005
Longhorn Beta 2 (and product) code complete
July 1, 2005
Longhorn Beta 2 internal release
Q3 2005
Longhorn Beta 2 public release
September 2005 (PDC 2005)
Longhorn Release Candidate 0 (RC0) internal release
Q4 2005
Longhorn Release Candidate 1 (RC1) internal release
March 2006
Longhorn release to manufacturing (RTM)
May 2006