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Vista RC1 Build 5728 Publicly Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-build-out-the-window dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Beta is the new Alpha and RC is the new Beta by ergo98 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This isn't an RC.

    FTFA:

    How does that undermine what I just said? It quite clearly indicates that RC1 was in no way in hell a real RC -- it was a beta. The code diff between RC1 and what actually goes gold with be massive.
  2. Re:Beta is the new Alpha and RC is the new Beta by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Freezing the API does NOT mean its a release candidate in anyone's universe except Microsofts'.

    A release candidate should be what the term implies - something that is actually a candidate for release as the final product, not something that you throw over the wall and hope that it stinks a bit less than the previous attempts.

    That they're still beta testing should tell you something about how much their development culture continues to suck.

    So, download it early, download it often, and help artificially inflate those "look at the interest" numbers ... just don't install this trojan:

    In addition, once you install Windows Vista 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

    Nice way of getting people to forget that XP already does everything they need, and locking them into having to buy an upgrade at retail prices.

  3. Re:Beta is the new Alpha and RC is the new Beta by fotbr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmm....I've reinstalled XP on this machine how many times in the last 5 years? Thats right. NONE. The ancient 450mhz K6-2 laptop? NONE. And the Win2k machine in the corner? Yup, NONE. How many times have I used the "rollback" feature? NONE -- that was the first thing I turned off.

    Now, the Win95/98/ME line, yeah, those were POS OSs that you had to reinstall every month or so. And I understand Joe-sixpack is more likely to click on random "bad things". But has it occured to you that maybe, just maybe, Windows has improved, and that many (but not all) of the problems aren't from windows, but from the layers of shit that people pile on it (Norton, I'm looking directly at you).

    Because you haven't used windows since Win98, please stop spewing lines that are no longer true.