Microsoft announced the release of last public beta (RC2) before the next generation operating system, Vista will take over Windows XP. Vista RC2 includes all the feedbacks provided by beta testers during pervious betas, important improvements in performance, application compatibility and fit and finish work just before the final release of Vista
Microsoft said that Vista RC2 will be available only to a limited number of CPP participants, beta testers, TechNet and MSDN subscribers.
Thanks: Nate Mook

wrote, on October 9th, 2006
Cool site! I just wanted to comment on a few early RC2 observations. I have it running since Saturday morning (10/7/2006) and I definitely notice some improvement in performance. (However, it and RC1 are terrible memory hogs compared to XP and definitely slower). I’m also still seeing compatibility issues with some rather common apps. For example, AVG Antivirus ran under RC1. It no longer runs under RC2. I’m still waiting to see if RC2 fixes another issue I saw on a regular basis in RC1 - a disappearing DVD drive. Rescanning for hardware changes “corrected” the issue but it would end up disappearing again at some point.
Robert Irizarry
Building The Ergonomic Guitar