Vista Beta 2 available for free public d/l!
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Ah,
all very well, but it's still not quite worknig right, and many drivers are still missing - so it means that most likely that the most important thing you need is broken.
Still nice to see what they are up to though.
Cue lots of wailing about MS being crap at OS and nothing working...
Calm down dear, its a Beta...
all very well, but it's still not quite worknig right, and many drivers are still missing - so it means that most likely that the most important thing you need is broken.
Still nice to see what they are up to though.
Cue lots of wailing about MS being crap at OS and nothing working...
Calm down dear, its a Beta...
I have had a legal copy which I have tried to run on my 2.8ghz P4 with 1 gig of ddr2 ram.
It has serious problems with resources on my machine, which I was disappointed to find. I think this must be a driver/code problem as I ran vista 1 on the same machine with no problems.
On my company laptop, Vista 1 is fine and I am very impressed considering it was only a beta.
It has serious problems with resources on my machine, which I was disappointed to find. I think this must be a driver/code problem as I ran vista 1 on the same machine with no problems.
On my company laptop, Vista 1 is fine and I am very impressed considering it was only a beta.
mattley said:
In all fairness no one on the planet was ever going to have enough bandwidth for this one.
Exactly
MS have pretty much THE biggest pipes in and out of their sites and servers - but then again, did you really expect that you'd get a chance on the first day?
IIRC they something like a 6Gb feed to the internet or something in the US...
Edited by neil_cardiff on Thursday 8th June 20:37
Zad said:
neil_cardiff said:
IIRC they something like a 6Gb feed to the internet or something in the US...
They use Akamai distributed cache servers for big things like this. Last I heard, Akamai could deliver well over 100Gb so it's probably well in excess of that now.
Are you f**king joking? Thats like a d/l speed of 1gb/sec? F U C K I N G H E L L
www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/VistaBeta1FS.mspx
Doesn't seem a lot to me in four years. Maybe they've made it super secure and rock stable, but as it's still a beta I can't tell! At the moment half my xp apps won't boot on it. Just have to wait I suppose...
Doesn't seem a lot to me in four years. Maybe they've made it super secure and rock stable, but as it's still a beta I can't tell! At the moment half my xp apps won't boot on it. Just have to wait I suppose...
shadytree said:
Sorry, a long and stupid question, but what's the major differences between Windows and Vista ? and is it worth changing? What's the advantages?
New interface - mucho rearrango. IE7 - different and allegedly better. The security model has changed - it now asks for permission when things install and need to touch system stuff. This is annoying - I was asked three times whether a web page could run a plugin. It's much harder to get at system files now. The other thing you'll see is that compatibility with the old Documents and Settings hierarchy has been achieved by using things called "junction points", which are what shortcuts always should have been. For UNIX people, they're similar in function to symbolic links.
More games - Freecell has finally had a spruce up!
Hardware support is still a little iffy; it didn't detect my bog-standard Audigy 2 soundcard and Netgear Wireless NIC. Creative have Vista drivers for the former and the XP drivers for the latter work fine.
The beta 2 is a resource hog compared to XP - don't even think of installing on a box with less than 1GB of RAM, and it needs about 15GB-ish disk space to install.
If you're not happy running software that might quite unexpectedly eat all your data and leave your computer in an unusable state, running the beta is probably unwise.
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