As Microsoft continues to sign up beta testers for its next-generation Windows product, it is updating its self-imposed delivery timetables and design points. If all goes according to plan from here on out, Microsoft is planning an Oct. 11 Beta 1 release, a Dec. 6 Beta 2 due date and an April 18 release-to-manufacturing date for Whistler, according to sources who claimed to have seen a copies of internal timetables.

All Microsoft is saying publicly at this point is that it intends to release Beta 1 in October and ship the final Whistler product in the second half of 2001.

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