It doesn't matter, even if they called it Windows Garbage, people would still buy it.

Window 2000 is the fifth version

screenshot: http://www.jcxp.net/vista_beta1_shots/

woa!! BIG icons!!

you'll get used to it eventually

you can configure that..

http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews...vista_b1_06.jpg

Only WinFS will not make it when Vista is shipped. Microsoft already announced it in 2004. It will be released later.

assuming he's a legit beta tester

yes, if you run it in classic mode (minus any eyecandy)

http://www.betanews.com/article/Scoble_MS_..._RSS/1124387204

It has different names on different browser, I don't see any problem with MS using a different name for it. Average users that wants dumbed down and gimmicky words... whilst you and I might understand RSS feeds I'm sure the thousands of aunts and uncles out there would much rather have a name like "Web Feeds" or "Live Bookmarks" than more techno-babble acronyms.

more screenshots from PDC 2005, icons, Alt-Tab, sidebar, task preview, gadgets (widgets), etc..

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?...86645&SID=1&u=0

Microsoft bombshell: no EFI support for Vista

Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista on its launch. The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI.

Speaking at Intel Developer Forum San Francisco, Microsoft development manager, Andrew Ritz, also revealed that there will never be any support for booting Windows via EFI on systems with 32-bit processors.

Although Microsoft has previously said EFI booting would be supported by Vista, Ritz admitted that EFI support won't be seen in any version of Windows until the release of Longhorn Server.

It will not be available in the release version of Windows Vista later this year - Microsoft says people will have to wait for an unspecified 'subsequent release of Windows client'. Ritz could not say whether that would be a service pack update to Vista or the next-generation of Windows.

Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the modern and flexible successor to the 20-year-old PC BIOS. It is responsible for initialising hardware in the PC, and importantly, device drivers are stored in the EFI flash memory rather than being loaded by the operating system. It is a major change for the PC industry and both PC makers and Microsoft have been slow to make the switch. Because the Apple Intel Mac platform is entirely new, it does not have any legacy support concerns. It was hoped that 2006 would be the year PC makers would make the switch. Microsoft's lack of Windows support is a huge blow to Intel's hopes, and removes most of the incentive for PC makers to implement it in the short term.

That's terrible news for Intel Mac users who have been hoping that they could dual-boot Windows and Mac OS X on their new Macs: not only are their processors not 64-bit (and thus will never be supported by Windows EFI booting) but Windows Vista won't boot on EFI anyway.

It said its decision to 'reprioritise' EFI development to the server version of Windows was based on a lack of available desktop PCs with EFI support on the market.

"A combination of factors changed our plans. The big one, in my opinion was platform availability. With this huge move to 64-bit based platforms and for us to support it, we needed to see a large heterogeneous sample of 64 bit implementations out there for us to feel comfortable in supporting it." said Ritz.

http://apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/E666E4A0A30...A25712C008166C4

Windows Vista delayed until 2007

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that they will once again delay Windows Vista, until early next year. The software giant said it will wrap up development of the new operating system this year and make it available to volume licensing customers in November. Microsoft's Windows chief Jim Allchin said the company is delaying the broad launch of the product until January 2007. Allchin also stated that the product will still launch in Microsoft's next fiscal year, which begins in July, meaning that Microsoft's overall business for next year shouldn't be affected. Allchin stated that some of the additional time was for ensuring security levels, and the company is also working on ironing out usability issues. "We're trying to crank up the security level higher than ever," Allchin said. "This came down to a few weeks. We're trying to do the responsible thing here."

Source: CNET News.com
View: Microsoft Press Release

Windows Vista Build 5365 Screenshot Gallery

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvi..._gallery_01.asp

Windows Vista Beta 2 related links:

NVidia's nForce drivers and Forceware drivers
ATI's Catalyst drivers
Paul Thurrott's preliminary Beta 2 review along with a bunch of images
PCMag's collection of screenshots
CNet has a senior editor playing around with Beta 2 in a short video

Vista Beta 2 will be available for download soon.

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=298569

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvi..._gallery_01.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx

open nero express, select disc image or saved project, load the iso file

burn.

it's the processor speed

have you seen the minimum requirement of Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/eva...on/sysreqs.mspx

would you run XP on that system?

edit: typo

This post has been edited by fariz: Jun 24 2006, 07:42 AM

need to participate in the Connect program, not for public

This post has been edited by fariz: Jun 25 2006, 10:02 PM