According to a report on The Inquirer, “sources close to Microsoft” say that the new 64bit version of their flagship desktop operating system designed to take advantage of the added capabilities of AMD’s line of Athlon64/FX and Intel’s up-and-coming line of 64bit-enabled CPUs will be released on April 29.

This is a little later than the anticipated date of “Sometime in March” but at least it’s not another delay of twelve months, or several years in the case of Longhorn

Microsoft also released a “Release Candidate 1” (build 1289) version of the OS to beta testers, and it has been widely speculated that they will shortly be releasing this to the public as part of their Customer Preview Program.

Here’s hoping they do, as the version they have available to the general public right now is getting rather old.

The Inquirer article