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Vista Beta Ends When?
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When does the Beta Period end?
Had a look around but is it March 07?
Had a look around but is it March 07?
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Then I unistalled it cos it was shit.
Typical - Have you seen What the packaging is going to be like?
The Vista Prem and Business you can tell are Basicaly PRO and Home
I thought someone would say something about it:angel:
I think it looks very nice.:cool:
I'll torrent ultimate when I need to get it. Probably after SP2 is out for it... I am yet sceptical of what gaming performance will be like. If it is good and stable, fuck it, i'll get it sooner.
I will only get Ultimate though. The beta has proved, whilst functional, to crash, and to be uncompatible with a fair amount of stuff. I need all compatibility.
I also want to be able to run upgrade from XP without the risk of loosing all my data, but what are the chances of that ever happening? :yeees:
Well, I guess we need a resident Windows fanboy to keep the Mac fanboys at bay.
I like Windows alot meself. Just not Vista. XP has grown on me, but the bad memories still burn away.
Who the hell cares? The only people who end up with it are the morons who buy retail from PC World. Anyone with any brains will be spending at least 50% less and going OEM...
Believe it or not, the cardboard packaging isn't the most important part of an operating system .
I always go over 30 days without a reboot. I've been up to 80 before now without any degradation in performance. Show me a Windows box in use every day than can do such things... and still run at a decent speed.
Im a Microsoft employee
What version is that ive heard of it but not seen any Microsoft stuff on it
oo lovely, i take it only for MSDN people?
Or people with torrent tbh
Don't be new Piracy ftw. I had RC2 when I tried it... the original betas didn't even work for me!
Erm, the piraters had it before the MSDN & Technet people had it. lol.
There's also a fairly serious bug that will ship on all vista cd's , which could potentially let you delete entire folders that you didn't mean to. GG Microsoft :-)
Also...
Ave it
I didn't need to, 'cos when I intalled it that PC was unplugged from the net?
There will be a crack somewhere anyway tbh! Or just get a torrent version, it will most likley have instructions.
Exactly the same as the first release of Win XP? when will microsoft learn!:no:
Theres a RTM version on newsgroups, i shall be getting that. i dont believe in piracy but it makes me so angry that microsoft make such sub-par operating systems and charge so much for it, ive already given them enough money with buying win 98, win ME and XP bundled with computers. infact microsoft should compensate me for the disgrace that was ME.
Anyways, would an RTM have an activation period?
In answer to the original question...
It ended a week ago, but only because of pressure to release, IMHO it's still beta software. I've had the 'final' version of XP running and its still a bit crap
Whats that ment to mean?
And ill give asking him another shot:thumb:
Tosser. Don't like it? Don't pay for it, don't use it. Stick with what you have.
Personally... I dont like it, but I got to know the in's and out's of it... im being sent on a days training course soon... exciting stuff :impissed:
All the activation crap and genuine advantage just gets me down :P
(For the same reason, I wont be installing Office '07, cos frankly office 2003 is just about perfection)
2003 is very good, ive got some coursework i was doing at school using 03 and when i got home and useing 07 to work on it, it screwed alot of it up!
But i sorted it at school
I wonder why that is...