Windows Vista Beta 2 Released to the Public

[cirisme]

I've got it downloading at work... 121kbs, not too bad.

Has anyone tried it with the free version of VMWare? I'm hoping it will work that way because I'm not going to bother with fully installing it. I know it won't have the glass interface, but I really don't care.

[Titan Kronos]

Wow i used the Windows Vista 1 Before and now there is a beta 2 wellthen what i heard is true that there will be no more sindows xp and now it will be windows vista instead

[Zachery]

No, just like there is still a windows 95 windows 98 windows me windows 2000, there will always be a windows xp, windows vista is just the next step.

[cirisme]

I've got it downloading at work... 121kbs, not too bad.

Has anyone tried it with the free version of VMWare? I'm hoping it will work that way because I'm not going to bother with fully installing it. I know it won't have the glass interface, but I really don't care.

Update: Seems to work fine and is pretty trivial to install. So far I don't have networking working but I'll work on that tomorrow.

[Floris]

I've got it downloading at work... 121kbs, not too bad.

Has anyone tried it with the free version of VMWare? I'm hoping it will work that way because I'm not going to bother with fully installing it. I know it won't have the glass interface, but I really don't care.

That is my next test this upcoming weekend.

[Mike Warner]

Damn - downloaded it and installed, but there are no drivers for the NVidia GeeForce Go 7400!! Anyone know of any drivers for this card? I have now reverted back to XP Media Center.

[TheComputerGuy]

I sed the beta...it wasn't bad as an upgrade. I just put XP back on...and I am happy. Vista is in beta, and I can't wait for the final version to come out.

Aero got me all excited.

[SaintDog]

Downloading now at about 400kbs, which isn't too bad. I downloaded the 64bit version last night by mistake since I was on my desktop, however, I am now redownloading as my laptop is a 32bit machine .

Nice to be able to tinker and test it, hopefully it will function well enough for me to test and play with.

[Floris]

For everybody who gets poor speeds: <removed by floris> get the torrent.

Turns out after MS says its probably ok that they have decided it isn't. http://arstechnica.com/journals/micr...2006/6/15/4345

[cirisme]

Update: Seems to work fine and is pretty trivial to install. So far I don't have networking working but I'll work on that tomorrow.

Does anyone know if Microsoft is going to release further updates?

And if you install it in VMWare like I did, be sure to install VMWare Tools. Mouse performance was terrible and I had no networking, but that all is easily fixed with tools.

So far I don't see anything compelling about Vista. The main interface hasn't changed too much, which is very nice. I need to load a few apps and see how other things have changed, I think the menu thing might be a problem. And the User Account Protection (or whatever it's called) is a major pain in the hiney, I do not like it at all.

[Joe Gronlund]

Does anyone know if Microsoft is going to release further updates?

And if you install it in VMWare like I did, be sure to install VMWare Tools. Mouse performance was terrible and I had no networking, but that all is easily fixed with tools.

So far I don't see anything compelling about Vista. The main interface hasn't changed too much, which is very nice. I need to load a few apps and see how other things have changed, I think the menu thing might be a problem. And the User Account Protection (or whatever it's called) is a major pain in the hiney, I do not like it at all.

What do you mean by further updates? Like a public release of beta 3?
It's still uncomfirmed, but possible..

[cirisme]

What do you mean by further updates? Like a public release of beta 3?

Yes.

It's still uncomfirmed, but possible..

Cool, thanks for the info.

[dilbert]

I got the file downloaded, but what do I do with it? It says it's an ISO Image File. I can't open it.

[Caiman]

I got the file downloaded, but what do I do with it? It says it's an ISO Image File. I can't open it.

You have to burn it to a DVD before you can use it now.

[dilbert]

Thanks, but all that did was move it to a DVD and I still an't open it.
Sonic Record Now trys to open it.
What am I supposed to do with this file?
Signed,
Very confused.