Parallels team gone dark?

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steve

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Hello,

I haven't heard much from Tim or Andrew on the forum lately and there hasn't been a new release candidate. It seems as if the team has gone dark. Any particular reason?

Steve
 
steve said:
Hello,

I haven't heard much from Tim or Andrew on the forum lately and there hasn't been a new release candidate. It seems as if the team has gone dark. Any particular reason?

Steve
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With any luck they are taking a bit more time to fix all of the issues that are broken before releasing the next RC. To be honest I'm glad. They should have released more builds prior to the initial RC. RC builds are generally far more stable and to be frankly honest I don't think 3120 was even suitable as a Release Candidate.

You almost have to think of an RC as shippable or near-shippable code.
 
BillInSoBe said:
You almost have to think of an RC as shippable or near-shippable code.
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You should totally think of RC as shippable or near shippable code. By definition, Release Candidate means the code team believes all major and mid level bugs are 100% gone. A RC is their belief of what is shippable to customers as a finished product. RC1 really should be Beta4.
 
steve said:
Hello,

I haven't heard much from Tim or Andrew on the forum lately and there hasn't been a new release candidate. It seems as if the team has gone dark. Any particular reason?

Steve
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That's what I'm thinking exactly. Let's hope that they're all are concentrating in getting version 2.5 done very soon.
 
Stevamundo, I concur with you that the team is probably focused on the next RC but I would have thought we would still see them around here. Then again, most of the discussion lately has been rehashing the same problems so there isn't much they can add to the discussion.

But with the Leopard announcement just around the corner, I wonder ... :rolleyes:
 
With the new release of Vista, and with Parallels being tied to Vista with three products (Parallels Desktop for Windows, Linux, and the Desktop for Mac), I'd bet they're busy as hell handling lots of Vista related problems. I'd be very surprised if they drop another RC any time soon but you never know.
 
dkp said:
With the new release of Vista, and with Parallels being tied to Vista with three products (Parallels Desktop for Windows, Linux, and the Desktop for Mac), I'd bet they're busy as hell handling lots of Vista related problems. I'd be very surprised if they drop another RC any time soon but you never know.
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I bet you are totally correct. The last beta was awesome, and with Vista now on the shelves as we type... and with all the horrific copy protection hardware issues embedded into the OS.... I wonder if they are not on a suicide watch...

= )
 
Support has been absolutely horrible.

It's like these guys don't want to answer problematic questions anymore.
 
Or more likely, problematic questions require new builds to address those questions and they are hard at work on those builds.

However even if that is what is going on (which is what I believe it is), they should at least tell us.
 
dkp said:
With the new release of Vista, and with Parallels being tied to Vista with three products (Parallels Desktop for Windows, Linux, and the Desktop for Mac), I'd bet they're busy as hell handling lots of Vista related problems. I'd be very surprised if they drop another RC any time soon but you never know.
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I guess they showed me. RC2 is out.
 
I see that! Great news.

On the Vista thing ... that hadn't occurred to me but makes a LOT of sense.

Anybody heard anything more about the Leopard rumours that it will support the Win API?
 
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