[BetaDroid™]

News early this week that Microsoft are trying to iron
out a bug with NX CPU execution protection technology
only spelled bad news. We can confirm that RC2 isn't
likely to be released to beta testers until early next
week. 2138 is the latest compile internally but doesn't
hold the golden RC2 tagging yet.

This only points to 2139/2140 being the RC2 build and
going out to testers within a week. Initially Microsoft
were aiming for a June RTM for Windows XP SP2 but delays
with security center bugs and application compatability
problems have delayed the highly anticipated update until
July. Because of this, development of Longhorn is almost
at a standstill whilst the main build team focus on XPSP2
instead of Longhorn. Many developers internally are
itching to get back to Longhorn development naturally.
According to internal sources 2137(xpsp.040520-1754) was
the build that the NX problems have come from.

Source: Microsoft SP2 Beta Newsgroups