I just noticed the following update from Brian Harry on the MSDN Forums which I thought I would share in case people missed it. He makes no guarantees for a January RC but its nice to know what they’re working on.</p>

We are still finalizing what the date of the RC will be.  We have had a goal to get it out in Jan but that is not a guarantee.  There are a few things we are basing our date on:

• We are finishing up another big chunk of work to improve the setup experience.  Specifically to address issues surrounding getting TFS and Sharepoint configured to work together properly.
• We are finalizing the tools and instructions to allow everyone to upgrade from Beta3/Beta3 Refresh to the Release Candidate.
• We are making sure that everything is in place to be able to service/patch the product after it ships.
• We are fixing bugs and want to be near 0 before the RC ships.
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When all of this is ready we’ll ship the RC.  We started doing detailed analysis on how long this would take just before the holidays and will be completing it this week.  We’ll update the blogs with the info as soon as we have it.

Brian

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