Vista RC1 Build 5728 Publicly Released

ClausValca writes "Doing some late-night surfing last night and came across a post over at Cybernet News: Limited Time Only: Vista 5728 Available To The Public. Although apparently intended for the TAP and Technical Beta Testers....it is available for download to the public via this Microsoft public download page for Vista 5728. There is a link on that page as well for direct download of the latest 64-bit flavor of that version as well. An Ars Technica post also has some background info on the new release. Techweb is reporting that Microsoft is specifically asking for feedback on this release, so make sure and let them know what you think."

Comments

Feedback

[QuantumFTL]

Techweb is reporting that Microsoft is specifically asking for feedback on this release, so make sure and let them know what you think.

Probably a bit too late to ask for POSIX interoperability, eh?

Re:Feedback

[Random BedHead Ed]

Not at all. I just dropped them an e-mail and asked them to ditch Explorer.exe in favor of KDE, and they said that would be fine and I should see it in the next RC. The FSF has convinced them to include Bash in place of cmd.exe, so that will be a nice improvement, too. I understand their shift from using the NT Kernel32 to Linux might not appear until the final release.

Re:Feedback

[Millenniumman]

I heard that they were switching to HURD.

Re:Change Log

[tomhudson]

I wish they wrote A ChangeLog.txt like most of the people in the biz.

They did - and they saved it in Word format, and its corrupted. So far, 3 employees have been wounded by flying chairs for suggesting they use OpenOffice to open and re-save it.

The kind of feedback they're looking for

[justinkim]

And just so everyone is clear, 'Replace this steaming pile with Ubuntu" is probably *not* the kind of feedback Microsoft is looking for ;)

Re:The kind of feedback they're looking for

[Anonymous Coward]

i'd rather install a vista beta from 6 months ago than plague my system with ubuntu, but thanks for the token "unix rules, windows sucks" comment... they're always hits amongst the penguin community

Re:My experience with Vista

[in2mind]

Command Prompt -> format d: /q

So much for a 2.5 GB download!!

Gah!!

[Klaidas]

So, I'm half way there downloading Vista's RC1, and a new release gets, um... released?!

Re:Beta is the new Alpha and RC is the new Beta

[iggy_mon]

...and what actually goes gold with...

gold... that's such a strong word for a windows release. could we just call it brass?

or cornbread?

or pee?

:-)