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Windows Vista Beta 2 Available for Download
prostoalex writes "Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available for download from Microsoft's official site. If you remember seeing reviews of it already, Microsoft made downloads available to a limited set of customers last month. For PC users that are already running Windows Vista Beta 2, Microsoft put together a list of additional downloads like product guide and feature lists."
If you don't want to run the Beta, fine, don't run it. However, to my mind you lose all rights to complain about misfeatures and bugs if you had an opportunity to find and report them, and didn't.
It's kind of like politics; if you can vote and don't, don't expect any sympathy from me if you bitch about the state of your government.
At least when you beta test an OSS OS you then get rewarded with a stable OS that you can freely install as you choose
Actually in both cases you get exactly the same reward - absolutely nothing. You get nothing that isn't available to everyone who *doesn't* help in the testing. At best you get your name on a list of participants, and the warm glow inside of having helped with something.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
What part of Beta did you not understand?
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
I ran Windows 2000 for years, just because I hated Windows XP for the very same reasons you mention. Now I run a MacMini with OS X, and never looked back. Trust me, you should follow.
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
Wow, I'm too stupid to run Linux! How did you know? You must be psychic! Or perhaps my sig gave it away?
*shock* *amazement* *awe*
Now, let me see if, in turn, I can also guess who you are. Hum, Anonymous Coward... posting gratuitous insults in Slashdot... lurking within a Microsoft-based article discussion, waiting for any opportunity to impose his self-acknowledged superiority... trumping Linux as the end-all-be-all of human achievements...
Naw, its just too easy.
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
If you install it, you have to buy it. Or reformat your HD. Most people who install this will end up shelling out the money to purchase. Great way to force people into upgrading. From the site: # Installation limitations There are two installation scenarios for Windows Vista Beta 2 (and RC1): 1. You can do a clean installation. This process will overwrite any data that you have on your hard disk or on your installation partition. The overwritten data will be lost and unrecoverable. 2. You can upgrade an existing installation of Windows XP. No other installation scenarios are supported. Upgrading to this beta from any other edition of Windows requires a clean installation, as described in option 1. In addition, once you install Windows Vista Beta 2 (or RC1) you cannot roll back to the previous operating system installation--you will either have to acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous edition of Windows. Before installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on any computer, please remember to back up all your files.
So anybody want to bet as to when Vista B2 will be availible in a not timelocked not keylocked aka Quacked into Hyperspace version??
bonus points if the Vista Ultimate Quacked Version is availible -X days from Vista Launch??
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