Beta Out For The Public!

[julian4239]

Microsoft has released Windows Vista for public beta testing.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...y/default.mspx

If there are folks that try it, post here!

[OulZac]

I did get an email from there beta newsletter, but have yet to test it out, maybe I will do that this upcoming weekend and report back here.

[dr911]

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[firestorm]

Downloaded the 3.3 gig iso last night. Will probably install it over the weekend and get back to ya with my opinion of it

[firestorm]

This post is made using Windows Vista Beta Build 2! I really like it so far and this beta thing has definately made me think about buying it sooner. Still a linux fan though . If you have any questions about it let me know, I will be glad to test anything(legal lol) on here for ya! I'm on IE 7 right now but gotta say that FF is still better in my book.

-fire

[lee101]

i installed it a while ago, but for some reason every time i run it it changes the resolution tosomething far too high, but before that happened I really liked it, although it's a bit of a resource hog, and not really very compaitble at this stage

[fabs]

Originally Posted by firestorm

Downloaded the 3.3 gig iso last night. Will probably install it over the weekend and get back to ya with my opinion of it

3.3G? How long did you take to download it? I don't have a dvd burner, can I burn it on several CD?

[lee101]

Originally Posted by fabs

3.3G? How long did you take to download it? I don't have a dvd burner, can I burn it on several CD?

no, it is a DVD ISO file, so cannot be burned onto multiple CD's, although i think i have seen people only burn enough files to CD to make it bootable then put the rest on their hard drive to install it, not sure about that method though

[JustNewbie]

Originally Posted by fabs

3.3G? How long did you take to download it? I don't have a dvd burner, can I burn it on several CD?

You can mount the DVD iso directly to your virtual drive, without any physical DVD/CD drives. I suggest that you use Alcohol 120% for image emulation. (If you don't want to buy it, google for keygen). 3.3GB, for me, it took me two days * 16 hours to download. Thanks to this "incredibly lightning-fast" connection. I hate this connection speed!

[firestorm]

I downloaded it in about 5 hours. Sry but we don't support software piracy here.