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.
If we want to confirm all of the federal judicial nominations President Trump sent over, it would take just over 200 hours of floor time. That’s ONLY judges, not considering the other executive branch nominees.
I love how Dems want to give illegal "undocumented immigrants" driver's licenses as soon as possible, yet don't want them to have to use those licenses to vote because it is "racist".
Today is November 9, 2026 - the border is CLOSED, the streets are SAFER, we’re BUILDING things in America again, and Donald J. Trump is STILL the President of the United States of America. 🇺🇸
