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Windows Vista & IE7 Beta 1 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the and-so-it-begins dept.

gdsotirov writes "Today on the IE blog the availability of two new beta tests - Windows Vista Beta 1 and Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 - was announced. These tests are mainly targeted to developers and IT professionals. Thus the betas are only available to MSDN subscribers. Tom's Hardware has details as well." From the article: "While the code also includes an early look at the new user-interface design, the majority of end-user features in Windows Vista will not be included until Beta 2. In addition to these fundamentals, Windows Vista Beta 1 also includes the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 built into the platform. The technical Beta of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 also is available today." Any early thoughts, MSDN subscribers?

7 of 727 comments (clear)

  1. Re:MSDN subscribers? by Shinaku · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can those actully read?

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  2. Re:Vista a disaster by kutsu119 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WOW, way to TROLL dude. Vista is fantastic, the only thing I would fault, would PERHAPS be it's speed at this point. But that is it.

    Closest idea to a perfect O/S yet!!

  3. Re:Woops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why the fuck is this moderated so highly!
    Let's attract even more attention to torrent sites so more can go down like btefnet and suprnova before them.

    jesus some people are stupid.

  4. Re:some FFT [food for thought] by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well if Microsoft didn't want to get the "piss ripped out of it" they should either

    1. Shut the fuck up until release day.

    2. Actually make REAL improvements in the OS.

    Changing a GUI around or two and making everything alphablended doesn't constitute improvements in my playbook.

    The OS still is not scalable [can you boot and use it properly from a TTY?]. It's still tied to "windowisms" e.g. drive letters and the like.

    It's still lacking development features like multiple desktops, a proper shell, other tools [compiler?]

    If an animated recycle bin made it above "make the shell not suck" in their TODO list then you know what their priorities are.

    Tom

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  5. mod parent up by aixou · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    he speaks as a representative of captain obvious to the overrated grandparent.

  6. Re:some FFT [food for thought] by jinzumkei · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Python? Perl? Java?

    Is your head buried THAT deeply in your own ass?

  7. Re:The Pirate Bay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fuck the hell off nigger. fucking retards who cant fucking comprehend slightly imperfect fucking english need to fucking go back to fucking their stupid fucking ugly mom and then fucking jump off a brige. noone cares how fucking offended you are about a few fucking grammatical or spelling errors nigger. when you walk into a fucking convience store and the mexican speaks with an accent do you grab the 5 foot high horse dildo you store up your ass and berate him for not knowing or choosing to use fucking perfect english? YOU ARE A FUCKING MORON.