Windows Vista RC2 Available

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 6, 2006 @01:34PM from the get-it-while-the-gettings-good dept.

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."

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Not the last Beta by rlp · 2006-10-06 13:43 · Score: 5, Funny

There will be a release candidate 3 Beta released as well. You'll just have to pay money for it in stores.

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1. Re:Not the last Beta by strider44 · 2006-10-06 18:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  There's a sub sandwich shop here that gives away free sandwich coupons every couple of months-- use as many as you want as often as you want. If you get addicted, you'll end up being their customer when it's no longer free.
  
  The heroin they put in their sandwiches helps.
Torrent? by tyler_larson · 2006-10-06 13:48 · Score: 1, Funny

Torrent for the rest of us?

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1. Re:Torrent? by stinerman · 2006-10-06 17:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah, but getting it from the source doesn't give you that "OMG WAREZ" feeling that downloading off a shady BitTorrent tracker does.
Re:Waste of Time by the-amazing-blob · 2006-10-06 13:52 · Score: 2, Funny

I for one am tired of our DRM loving monopoly overlords!

You'll regret that statement when the revolution comes.
Re:fisht post by kusanagi374 · 2006-10-06 13:55 · Score: 2, Funny

I bet they'll call it "gamma" after the RC cycle...

Yes, then they'll call it delta when they release it for volume licensing and... semi moronic epsilon when its out in the wild for home consumers.

"O wonder!
How many goodly features are there here!
How beautious vista is!
O brave new windows,
That has such features in't!"
Offers users a higher level of performance ... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-06 14:00 · Score: 5, Funny

offers users a higher level of performance and stability

ie: We added -DNDEBUG to the compiler command line.
No one has commented on this yet? by physicsphairy · 2006-10-06 14:00 · Score: 4, Funny

We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2.
Now this is the kind of honesty you have to appreciate.

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Can't WAIT!!! by slightcrazed · 2006-10-06 14:03 · Score: 4, Funny

I for one am very much looking forward to using Window's Vista once it is fully released. There seems to be much to look forward to; new features, better stability, better performance. I'm reading up on it right now on the Microsoft Website, and I can't wait to install it on my old Acer laptop. She's only got a 1.5 ghz celeron and an old intel graphics chip, but I'm sure that..... .....wait, what do they mean by 'Minimum system requirements'?
Re:Link to ISO by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-06 14:05 · Score: 5, Funny

2552.6 gigabytes squared? Who said Microsoft cannot come up with something novel.
2.5 Terrabytes? by The+Real+Toad+King · 2006-10-06 14:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Here's the direct link to the 2552.6GBGB ISO image: Vista RC2 build 5744
What? Did they encode it all in ASCII 0s and 1s?
1. Re:2.5 Terrabytes? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-06 16:02 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  They just set the font size up way too high.
Re:Schedules slip, milestones change meaning by megaditto · 2006-10-06 14:27 · Score: 5, Funny

RTFA:

We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2.

Takes time to implement some good bugs, or else the users would not stay hooked to the "Patch Tuesday"/WGA

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Re:Link to ISO by MonkeyBoy · 2006-10-06 14:30 · Score: 5, Funny

2.55TBs?!

Now that's some serious code bloat.

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Bugs by tawhaki · 2006-10-06 14:35 · Score: 5, Funny

We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2.
I thought the bugs were already in RC1, why did they need to implement them again for RC2?
Re:Works great. by jamesh · 2006-10-06 14:36 · Score: 1, Funny

Bill? Is that you?

(just kidding :)
OK, You've Convinced Me... by littlewink · 2006-10-06 16:31 · Score: 3, Funny

I'll try Vista. But first I gotta drink a quart of whisky and nail my penis to a picnic table.
Re:Waste of Time by Stormwatch · 2006-10-07 00:01 · Score: 2, Funny

You'll regret that statement when the revolution comes.
Our DRM-loving monopoly overlords will be the first ones against the wall.

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