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Windows Vista RC1 available to the masses

Gill Cleeren

Microsoft | Software | Vista | Windows

September 6, 2006

Yes folks, it's finally here!! RC1 of the upcoming Windows Vista!

MS just opened the doors to CPP (Customer Preview Program), so everybody can starting to enjoy vista now already.

Microsoft notes on the website: Windows Vista RC1 is available for participants of the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program. Please go to the Customer Preview Program website to register and receive a Product Key, which is required to install and activate the software.

Here are the linkzzz: (I provide you the direct links to the ISO's so you don't have to use the download manager MS suggests)

32 bit: download iso - 2,584.25 MB (Expires June 1st 2007)
64 bit: download iso - 3,677.22 MB (Expires June 1st 2007) (Lots bigger that 32 bit ;-) )
Get yer keys here (note that if you have a beta 2 key, that is also works!)
Download page

My experience so far with RC1: I installed it on Saturday in a Virtual PC environment. At first, I had not installed Virtual Machine Additions Beta 2... Oh my, that was a real disaster! After installing them in the Vista VPC, it worked like a dream! Fast and pretty reliable...
Some negative points too... it's not ready, you can see that easily. Annoying things like "the-first-file-is-not-selected-when-I-open-a-folder-in-Explorer" still can't make you enjoy the OS completely. But I'm sure they will pull this off (I'm not sure if they will in 6 weeks, however, but we'll see that...).

Should you also want to install Vista RC1 in a VPC, do install the VMaddtions for Vista Beta 2! You can download the here.

Posted on: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:49:32 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00) | Comments [1]

Saturday, September 09, 2006 11:25:42 AM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Did I see this right?
When using FF to download the image file, a Java Applet is started.
Is MS changing course and doing an effort to work browser compliant?

Dump classloader list ...
codebase=http://dlmanager.akamaitools.com.edgesuite.net/dlmanager/versions/java/, key=http://dlmanager.akamaitools.com.edgesuite.net/dlmanager/versions/java/,dlm-java-2.0.41.jar, zombie=false, cache=true, refcount=1, info=sun.plugin.ClassLoaderInfo@94948a
Done.

screenshot:
http://gouranga.dyndns.org/blog/images/ms_vista_java_appletdownload.PNG

gouranga

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