Microsoft Corporation signed off on Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Tuesday, two weeks after the release of RC0. If the product continues with this nicely timed schedule, the final "RTM" release will hit on June 13th as planned and Windows Me will begin appearing with new PCs and on retail store shelves in late July. In a note to beta testers, the company said that Windows Me RC1 would be the first of many release candidate builds that will appear over the next few weeks as the product inches closer to completion. And at this point in the Windows Me´s development, Microsoft is only looking for "show stopper" bugs and regressions from prior Windows releases.

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