Windows Vista RC2 Available

GarstMan writes to mention that Microsoft has released what it hopes will be the last version of Windows Vista to go through the testing process. From the article: "This new build of Windows Vista offers users a higher level of performance and stability - improving what was established in Windows Vista RC1. We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2. Thank you to our beta testers for the bugs and feedback you submitted for RC1. The improvement shows as we raised our quality bar even higher! Platforms and Services Co-President Jim Allchin has just posted a special announcement letter of RC2 to Microsoft Connect for the Windows Vista Technical Beta Testers."

Comments

Going back to XP (in my Parallels)

[network23]

What a turd.

I'm going back to XP in my Parallels in my MacBook.

Troll?

[twitter]

OK, I suppose the constructive thing to say is, "Best Windoze evar!" Otherwise I'm a troll:

a troll is often someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy or antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion

Come on people, it's funny. How many useful things can anyone say about a buggy piece of commercial software that's not even finished yet. When it's done, a review or comparison might be useful ... though I have zero use for Windoze. Until then, it's all marketing hype for something most people don't like from a company most people hate.

Re:Schedules slip, milestones change meaning

[Alien Being]

In 25 years, they've never built an OS worthy of running a five and dime store. Who cares WTF they call them?

VISTA RG 1- Real Good Edition (hah!)

[SLEDgrepper]

Yeah It looks like the last 5 years of product development curtail advanced instantanious product key lookups and gadgets that OS X has had light years before. HEY I can't even change the colour of the BLACK taskbar! No one has Drivers! Where are the Drivers, can someone please Digitally sign this driver, hello Slysoft users you won't be able to get past reboot without this message. VISTA RC Edition is free of charge to us beta nose bleeders who enjoy the advanced stability of vast product incompatibilities, hell Adobe Acrobat isn't even allowed to create a PDF Printer as they want us to use their XPS printing. Lipstick on a FAT pig is a correct expression, I put this sick puppy on a Core 2 Duo with 1 Gig of Ram, Just farting around on the desktop eats up 85% of ram! Note to Vista Capable users, you will be very incapable without a 2 GIG supply of ram. PS if you like to use Dreamweaver, your files will disappear. At the very least RC1 didn't have to restart every 5 seconds with a NTFS repair corrupting my partition to hell. I am very excited and can't wait for RC3 the fortune I will make servicing this beast! I Love IE 7 the Anti Phishing slows down the page loads as Mr T would say "HELLUVA SLOW FOO!"

For those NBM'ers

[Ucklak]

There seems to be much to look forward to; new features, better stability, better performance

Are we to believe that Redmond is actually stating that XP, their flagship OS, is less stable than Vista?
Are we to believe that Vista will have better performance because of the millions of lines of code in the OS that makes it awesome or because the hardware requirements for Vista are higher than for their flagship OS, XP?
New Features? I wasn't aware that DRM and fancy schmancy desktop themes are features but if that's what floats your boat, then I guess I'll call them features too.