yes will you are right RTM is the last for testing but gold is the final
version and beta testers may or some of them may get the final gold
depending how active and good bug reports and feeedback they gave to the
beta of vista.
"Will" <imagine_44******.com> wrote in message
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> There may be some differences between gold and rtm but essentually it's
> still going to be the same code
> From what has been said RC2 is pretty much the end of the line for public
> testing
>
> "Drew" <s@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> yes but there going to be a gold version after RTM.RTM is justa final to
>> build for companies to get the drivers update there usually a gold
>> version after RTM before it goes public.
>> "Will" <imagine_44******.com> wrote in message
>> news:8CF770D1-FA86-446F-9041-5D9CABA46E9E@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>>> All beta builds (including RC1 and RC2) will stop working on the 1st of
>>> june 2007 beta keys will work till then
>>> RTM will be retail and beta keys will not work on it
>>>
>>> it is also likely that you will not be able to upgrade from RC1 or RC2
>>> to the final version you will probably need to do a clean install
>>>
>>> These evaluation builds are all timebombed to stop working you can find
>>> out the exact date and time they will stop working by typing "winver" in
>>> the run command
>>> And it will be most likely that the beta keys will be blocked by MSFT
>>> after the 1st of june 2007
>>>
>>> "Drew" <s@aol.com> wrote in message
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