Rumor has it that Microsoft has released a Release Candidate of the Windows Phone 8 SDK to select developers, with a public release still expected at the launch on October 29th More...

Microsoft has released the release candidate build of Visual Studio 2012 Professional, the new and official name for the latest version of its software development tool product. More...

Microsoft has just gone live with the download links for Windows Server 2012 release candidate, the OS comes in two flavors, 64 bit ISO and VHD. More...

Microsoft has posted up details of some changes it plans to make to Visual Studio 11 as the company prepares to launch a Release Candidate build of the software development tool. More...

A few more minor screenshots from a reportedly leaked copy of the Windows 8 pre-Release Candidate version have now been posted, revealing some of the latest little tweaks to the new OS. More...

A newly leaked list claims to have the latest release candidate build number, 8284.0.winmain.120216-1840, for Microsoft's upcoming Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 More...

After 12 betas (13 if you used the nightly builds), Mozilla have finally signed off Firefox 4 as a Release Candidate and made it available for download. In a posting on the Mozilla blog they announced... More...

In a posting on Google Groups, Developer Benjamin Smedberg said in a message to fellow coders that the Mozilla developer hub was "now closed so that release engineering can prepare Firefox 4 release candidates." And this... More...

Since its release on February 10th, the IE9 Release Candidate has been downloaded over 11 million times. Together with the IE9 Beta, IE9 has been downloaded over 36 million times since its initial availability on... More...

Since its debut only a few days ago, Internet Explorer 9 RC has surpassed the two million download milestone. The Windows Team Blog announced today, with excitement, on the success of their HTML5-compliant browser. The... More...

Russian website winreview.ru has gotten hold of a more recent build of IE9 that is expected to land as the public Release Candidate on January 28. This build, numbered 9.00.8073.6010 (WIN7_IE9_Partner.110113-2300), features notable UI tweaks, sharper... More...

Microsoft said on Monday that it is making a Release Candidate (RC) version of Silverlight 4 for download. At a keynote for Microsoft's MIX 2010 keynote, Scott Guthrie, Vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, outlined Silverlight... More...

Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) copies will begin restarting every two hours today. Microsoft officials warned of the prompts and bi-hourly shut downs in early February. A brief summary of the events can be found below: Effective... More...

On Tuesday Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4.0 RC to MSDN subscribers. Today, the company has made these releases available to the public. Visual Studio is a development environment that allows developers... More...

Microsoft said on Monday that it had shipped a Release Candidate (RC) copy of its development software Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio is a development environment that allows developers to create GUI applications along with Windows... More...

Microsoft has released Office 2010 RC to technical beta participants today. The software giant has made available the release Candidate Builds of Microsoft Office 2010 client (build 4734.1000) and server products (build 4730.1010). Earlier this week... More...

Microsoft officials have confirmed to Neowin that the company recently released a Release Candidate (RC) build of Office 2010 to private beta testers. Early Release Candidate builds began leaking to the web in January this year... More...

Microsoft has issued a reminder that in two weeks Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) users will begin receiving expiration notifications. Windows 7 RC does not expire until 1 June 2010 but from February 15 users... More...

SmartCode VNC Manager is a powerful remote administration and monitoring software application for both the business and home network environments. It is typically used for remote network management, remote system administration and in helpdesk environments.... More...

Thanks to eagle eyed Neowin visitor ThePhoenix, we've spotted that Microsoft have published the Windows 7 RC page at TechNet a little too early. The page indicates it is due to be published in May... More...

Microsoft is looking to release the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 to selected testers the week of December 1, according to sources close to the company. Microsoft's plan... More...

CD Art Display (formerly Winamp CD Case) is a free desktop program that shows the current song's cover in a skinnable display. It supports Winamp 5, AlbumPlayer 4.3e and iTunes 6. It also supports Winamp... More...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Release Candidate (RC) is a cumulative service pack that provides the latest updates, security and stability enhancements, in addition to new features, feature updates and utility updates... More...

Firefox 2 Release Candidate 1 (RC 1) is a preview release of the next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for download to Web application developers, the testing community and users who want... More...

Following the release Friday of Microsoft Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1), Microsoft Corp. announced plans to make RC1 available for broad customer and partner testing. With this milestone, Microsoft is also communicating the U.S.... More...

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have... More...

Microsoft on Tuesday reached another milestone of sorts for its next Windows Server upgrade, code-named R2. The Redmond, Wash.-based company unveiled Release Candidate Zero (RC0) of Windows Server 2003 R2. Typically,... More...

Gearbox's ultrarealistic World War II shooter is on the verge of going gold for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2. A brief message on a Web site belied the approach of one... More...

Install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate (RC) to help secure your server and to better defend against hackers. Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC enhances security infrastructure by providing new security... More...

Microsoft iSNS Server is used for discovery of targets on an iSCSI network. Included are x86 free and checked versions and IA64 free and checked versions. Note: fixes date timeout issue... More...

Archetype is a personal blog & photo album management system. It will make having a web journal (weblog or blog) and photo album easier to have and maintain for anyone. Changes Since Beta... More...

Thanks Ultima who got this alert through the vorbis mailing list. We're gearing up to the next full release of the Vorbis codec; I've just tagged a release candidate in SVN in order... More...

At long last PHP 5 Release Candidate 3 has been released. With any luck this will the final release till we get PHP 5! This mostly bug fix release improves PHP... More...

Dear Windows Update V5 Beta testers: Windows Update V5 RC2 is now available for Windows XP SP2 (build 2120), Windows XP RTM/SP1, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 SP3/SP4. The website and the... More...

Microsoft has taken the unusual step of patching release candidate testing software by issuing three critical patches for Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC1. Pre-release software is buggy by definition and users normally expect to... More...

Microsoft iSNS Server is used for discovery of targets on an iSCSI network. Included are x86 free and checked versions and IA64 free and checked versions. Download: Microsoft iSNS Server Release... More...

WinHEC 2004 is rapidly approaching, and with it will be our Driver Install Frameworks 1.0 release. As a final stepping stone to that milestone, I'm pleased to announce that the Release Candidate of the Driver... More...

Release Candidate 3 of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 is ready for download. OpenOffice.org 1.1.1Rc3 download It incorporates numerous bug fixes and is cleaner than RC1. However, we are asking you,... More...

The first Release Candidate of PHP 5 is finally here! The move from Beta stage to RC stage means that PHP 5 is now feature complete, and is quite stable - stable enough for everyone... More...

Overview Microsoft iSNS Server is used for discovery of targets on an iSCSI network. Included are x86 free and checked versions and IA64 free and checked versions. Download: Microsoft iSNS... More...

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins... More...

Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. We've added lots of features and fixed lots of bugs since Mozilla 1.4. Help us shake it down in preparation for Mozilla... More...

Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Version 1.5 includes great improvements to Mozilla Composer including: better resizing for images, tables and absolutely positioned objects and much more. Improvements... More...

Thanks to the guys over at Linuxcompatible! The Lycoris Development Team is hard at work finishing Desktop/LX Update 3. Release candidate 0 is now available! All users can use the Update Wizard... More...

SmartLine Inc would like to announce the pre-release version of our easy-to-use security solution that fully protects corporate networks against attacks from the inside. DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users can... More...

Microsoft has updated Windows Messenger 5Some of you may have noticed that we had a previous Release Candidate (Build 0335) out over the weekend. We found one deployment bug that we had to fix. This... More...

SmartLine Inc would like to announce the second pre-release version of our easy-to-use security solution that fully protects corporate networks against attacks from the inside. DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users... More...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Windows® Small Business Server 2003 Release Candidate is available for technology providers and small businesses to begin testing. Available in two editions, Premium and Standard, the newest version of... More...

SmartLine Inc would like to announce the second pre-release version of our easy-to-use security solution that fully protects corporate networks against attacks from the inside. DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users... More...

SmartLine Inc would like to announce the pre-release version of our easy-to-use security solution that fully protects corporate networks against attacks from the inside. DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users can... More...