According to sources at Microsoft, the release of Windows XP ("Whistler") Beta 2 has slipped one more week, and is now due March 21. This is the second such delay for this crucial final beta of the next version of Windows, which was originally due to ship by March 1. My sources tell me, however, that Windows XP is in good shape overall, and that Microsoft is only fixing a small group of remaining bugs that it deems critical for this release. And recent pre-Beta 2 builds of the OS bear out this news; Microsoft had released Windows XP build 2456 internally by the end of the week.
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