Vista beta 2 release

Of course UAC was only a small part of what was covered at the reviewer's preview. As the week progresses, I'll be covering more aspects of Windows Vista beta 2.

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Windows Vista also did not have a separate componentized embedded version, as Microsoft instead planned to release Windows Embedded , which is based on Windows XP. Although the Business and Ultimate editions were also available for licensing on embedded devices namely Windows Vista Business for Embedded Systems and Windows Vista Ultimate for Embedded Systems as a part of Windows Embedded Enterprise product line, they are essentially the same as the base editions available on retail.

No build of Windows Vista including pre-reset used or even included the widespread sound scheme that appears in several fanmade Longhorn or Vista themes. The Windows XP sounds remain and are used in all pre-reset builds, with a few being swapped with Vista sounds between builds and WAV used in the Speech Recognition tutorial in build Build list legend Available build.

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Windows NT 3. Windows CE 1. Windows NT 4. Category : Windows versions. Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views View Edit Edit source History. You can buy all that stuff seperately if you want it. Novell, on the other hand, came forth with Xgl and compiz and made them open too. And probably other Linux distributions will get to do that too before Vista ships.

Pick SuSE. When SuSE ships with desktop compositing, let me know. TV or two over there, web browser over there etc. Well, some might disagree. Anyone understand the performance rating screen in the slideshow? The overall rating was 2 but the lowest rating in the details was 2. Microsoft has yet to divulge any information on how these calculations are made. It apparently is not a pure average. It was able to go from a 2 to a 3 by change form a pci-e to pci-e I can easily envision it being tied into hardware partnerships and advertising campaigns.

Anyone else think Microsoft are really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find features for this thing?

The Performance Rating is a bit cruel too — that eweek system had an average of about 3. Anyways, enough bitching. Also, WinFS is still in the works and in testing right now. I get sick of people saying that it looks like Mac OS X. It looks nothing like it, and I have used a Mac for years. All the UI goodness will look good on screenshots, and the first few days you use it, but then it will become irritating and probably end up being switched off by most people.