wooch

You can sign up on the MS beta site, but MSDN subscribers always get first dibs on betas and new releases. I believe MSDN gets it first (downloadable), and TechNet subscribers must wait for the CD's to ship. This has been my experience, I'm not sure if it's changed.

Demigod121

Does it run current apps and games well enough?

I'd love to beta it but not at the expense of my Battlefield2 or Half-Life.

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Grentz

Technet subscription (look at bottom for prices)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abo...s/default.mspx

MSDN Subscription:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/subscribers/

darundal

At that point, is it gouging or rape?

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Grentz

Well, considering that most of those guys can get on those sites to use for making products that make them $1000's (the developers and such) and considering Apple Doesn't even do anything like it or do wide spread betas for that matter...its not that bad of a thing for some people

Howard2k

Apple do offer a beta plan for their developers. Just not as wide spread. Obviously :)

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Grentz

Plus after talking to some of my business friends, they have said apple is very picky on who gets into those developer groups

o well, not an Apple vs Windows thread, BACK TO VISTA :approve:

Ecks

man...those pics were wild!....can't wait to get a copy..legal one that is.
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tancerman

Ok. Heres the deal guys. The company I am working for over the summer is partners with microsoft and are MSDN subscibers. I didn't really get a chance to look to much at it but here is a screenshot of the setup. We were installing it on a virtual machine, and the quality is kinda bad so bear with me...

No more blue screen setup!!

derekivey

That looks nice :approve:

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ericcumbee

is installation fast in that build, i remember seeing that with the early longhorn builds install time was greatly reduced.

Grentz

Looks great. To tell you the truth ericcumbee, on the machines that I have been installing XP Pro SP2 on lately, install time is exrememly fast. Most times it takes only around 15-20 minutes :)

tancerman

Install of Vista was very fast. It took about 15 minutes and the DVD ISO was on a server on the network. And it was a virtual PC so I'd say that isn't to bad.

More pics to come soon though. I will try to play around with it on Monday.

derekivey

Reese don't you have any pics of it? :p

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