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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 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.