The Delphi 64 beta which used to be an April’s fool, and a few days later turned out to incidentally be official after all, might finally begin next week.

Answering a question by Tobias Giesen in the non-tech forum, Tim Del Chiaro (from Embarcadero Product Marketing) wrote:

> I applied with XE serial, but haven't heard back yet.
> Can I still hope to get beta access?

You should see an invite later this week when we start sending them out.

So apparently the announcement was made somewhat early by Embarcadero, and they haven’t yet started sending invites, but things could be happening sometime next month.

Links: Embarcadero’s page on Delphi 64-bit compiler preview and beta sign-up.