Vista Beta Program

[Penth]

I read there is a more public preview of Beta 2 coming up. Where do I sign up to get my own key(s)?

 

[ProviaFan]

There's no page where you can sign up right now, as far as I know. When you can sign up, it should be here.

 

[spyordie007]

That's correct, keep checking back.

I'm sure when the beta goes public you'll hear plenty about it here.

 

[meat2783]

Just got back from a Microsoft Technet User Group, and the presenter let slip a few details on the release of Vista.

The public beta will begin on about the 5th or 6th of June, and the release of Vista to Business/Enterprise Customers will be on the 26th (or 28th can't remember) of October.

BTW a great presentation, with many things shown in Vista that most web reviews are not going into any detail about....personally I'm looking forward to this release from Microsoft.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Gee, how delayed.. the original date was May 27th....

 

[stash]

Gee, how delayed.. the original date was May 27th....

Uh, there was no official date. The only date that Microsoft ever released publically for beta two was Q206

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: meat2783
BTW a great presentation, with many things shown in Vista that most web reviews are not going into any detail about....personally I'm looking forward to this release from Microsoft.

Like what? I pretty much only read Paul Thurrotts reviews, and he seems pretty thorough.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Gee, how delayed.. the original date was May 27th....

Where did you hear this? The only place i heard that was in a thread here, but nowhere official.

 

[stash]

Like what? I pretty much only read Paul Thurrotts reviews, and he seems pretty thorough.

The Ars review is pretty good: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/vistab2.ars

Tom's Hardware has a review up, but I won't link to it. It's 40 pages long, with mainly just captioned screenshots, in a blatant attempt to generate ad revenue.

 

[meat2783]

Some of the things I was talking about were the Parental Control Features (at least I havnt seen), have not been shown in depth....which by the way will work great at home and the office.

The ability to upgrade XP, instead of a clean install is nice. As well as the ability to change partition sizes with the disk management tool.

Web sites have kinda briefly shown this, seeing it in action was quite interesting.

 

[Penth]

Maybe it'll be on the 7th...

 

[CVSiN]

Well the Vista/360 Media center edition beta just started...
got my invite yesterday..

 

[Gautama]

Originally posted by: CVSiN
Well the Vista/360 Media center edition beta just started...
got my invite yesterday..

Where'd you signup?

Please tell me your not MSDN >.<