Wow, talk about me falling behind…Microsoft ‘recently’ announced that Beta 2 of VS 2005 will ship around end of March, and at the same time receive Go Live! licensing.  Go Live! was introduced to assure developers that applications being built with a beta version of software would be production-ready.

In addition, the RC will ship around the September timeframe…for those who have been worried by ‘delays’, I would assume Microsoft is doing all it can to deliver this year, and I wouldn’t expect anymore delays.  They haven’t missed a ‘year-branded’ product release yet…