Microsoft: No delays to Vista Beta 2, 2006 release | TG Daily

"Redmond (WA) - Responding to press reports that interpreted Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin as saying that the planned Beta 2 release for its upcoming Windows Vista would be 'skipped,' a Microsoft spokesperson late yesterday officially denied that the company would be discontinuing Vista Beta 2.

That said, the company did confirm what Allchin was apparently trying to say in the first place: that the timetable for Beta 2's release had already been altered, to account for the fact that multiple types of installations - for instance, desktops, workstations, enterprise servers - would have to be managed separately. Allchin's original statement, which was an attempt to say that Microsoft would have to handle Beta 2 differently than it did Beta 1, especially in light of the fact that Beta 2's release had been scheduled for January, and it was soon becoming February."