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Originally Posted by jay2thab
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My bad, I was refering to some of the pics I was looking at in the mag so I am not sure of any specific devices, but if I got this wrong I stand corrected. More specifically has WM5 been released and if so what's up with the wait time for the upgrade? Does this have to do with manufacturing, shipping, standard industry practices or Dell holding the proverbial carrot on the string?
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The copies that magazines/developers/etc get this early are generally just "test" (i.e. beta) releases of the OS build for a specific model. Microsoft released the core WM5 OS a while back. But each manufacturer has to take that core OS and make a custom build that works on their PPCs.
More than likely Dell, HP, and others already have a "test" build of it for their devices in-house... but they don't release it until they've worked the kinks out. Plus you've got to add in the lead-time for stamping the CDs, printing the instructions, packaging, etc.