Paul has always had great opportunities to review early versions of products from Microsoft. He enthusiastically does this with an eye for detecting the not-so-finished features that would trip up the average user.
Since I’m an avid technology buff working in IT, I regularly read his reviews, and this one should be another great retrospective of the process of getting from the Longhorn concepts to Vista the product.
RC2 is over! As stated before, Vista RC1 is the “long-term” supported public beta release, and is still available for download from Microsoft if you want it.
Here is more information on the Vista Volume Activation – its called Volume License Key Compliance and CRN has a full article on the topic – link below.
So it’s sounding like the media is starting to believe that Vista will actually ship when Microsoft said it would.
Right on schedule, Microsoft says there is one more beta release for the main Vista beta team. After that, the next build for an external release will be the RTM.
eWeek has a good article that discusses this along with many aspects of what MS has been working towards with the Vista product.
Have a gripe about the Windows Vista User Interface? Give Microsoft your opinions and help build a better product.
Microsoft is accepting feedback from anyone, not just their beta users, on the UI in Vista. You can read more about the program & forum in the BetaNews article linked below.
ICYMI: 357 members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat voted AGAINST our resolution to make public the sexual harassment and misconduct records of Congress.
357 Members voted to protect predators. 357 Members voted to protect themselves. 357 Members voted to take part in a
