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		nazgulnarsil on May 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most complete review about windows 7 agreed. an RC review says a lot more because it lets you know what microsoft thinks of as finished code.

bitwize on May 11, 2009 [–]

Except due to release-quality drift, RC is the new beta, and beta is the new alpha, unless you're talking about Web 2.0 in which case "beta" is what goes live.

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