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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: 0, Troll

    Two issues:

    1. Most people don't have an "extra" partition (I've got 10 spare ones that I use to install trials of linux distros, but I'm not your average user). For most users, they'll just install over their current copy of XP
    2. Release Candidates - the new crack cocaine. "The first hit is free." Who's going to want to have to re-install everything they do between now and next July?
  2. Re:Beta is the new Alpha and RC is the new Beta by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft created a product that, IF USED CORRECTLY (and programmed to correctly), works just fine.

    And what was the name of this mysterious product? Its certainly nothing that has seen the light of day.

    Its certainly not any version of Windows, with that wonderful "surf the net, get your patches automatically ... oops, you're already owned before you have a chance to install the first patch" user experience ...

    It can't be Microsoft Office, which confuses the heck out of most people when doing even simple tasks ... and leaks all your edits, private annotations, revision history, etc., as well as piggybacking macro viruses ...

    It can't be Outlook ... "where am I going to send your files today"

    Internet Explorer, with the "sploit of the day?" Nah.

    The simple fact is that if all a person is using is those 4 pieces of software, replacing them with linux, openoffice, thunderbird and firefox is doing them a favour.

    Heck, someone even came out with a replacement for Clippy that runs under linux. http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/ Is it cheesy? Yes. That's the whole point.

  3. Vista is irrelevant by Werrismys · · Score: 0, Troll

    It offers nothing, is closed and DRM-infested. The user experience is no better than before.

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    'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
  4. Re:Change Log by zsau · · Score: 0, Troll

    They wrote a Word document called ChangeLog.txt and it's corrupt? Perhaps they should rename the file to ChangeLog.doc. I don't think Windows is smart enough yet to work out the type of a file from its type, rather than its name.

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