Windows Vista Business Test Drive

[Slimy]

http://www.windowsvistatestdrive.com/

[asdfoi83wyrl]

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Man, when I clicked the link to view this thread, I thought I was going to be able to get Vista Business for free. Not exactly, I guess.

[NoneAvail]

The Vista Demos load very slow... Best time to play is off-peak hours.

[brand]

Reminds me of FlyakiteOSX's web page a bit. Except Flyakite's page is quite a bit more of a true OS experience. Well... at least they did it.

[8nfinity]

Neat thing, but it's too slow. I click on something and it takes like over a minute just to load it up. If only it were a bit faster... i'd spend more time testing it then.

[LOC Veteran]

Hmmm, looks like an official site, but you can never tell these days. Anyone playa round with it, no problems to report? Microsoft or some other 3rd party isn't going to see my pr0n collection are they?

[BajiRav]

Why does it has Media Center in the start menu ? and it actually launches it. I thought it was only in HomePrem & Ulti :unsure:

[Code.Red]

Pretty cool, too bad there's no internet. :whistle:

^ If you check winver it's actually Ultimate..

[8nfinity]

Ok this is weird. I decided to toy around with it further and clicked switch users... then all of a sudden it gives me a white screen of death and says "DRT turning off". Then when I move my mouse around the virtual screen thing it shows my cursor as a little box and the artificial pointer slowly follows it with a 1 second gap. Looks like they're running it on some virtual homebrew machine (i.e. the same machine that came up when I test clicked the system properties, some AMD Opteron with 1 gig ram).

[Code.Red]

Heh, I was trying the same thing. I logged out, and when I logged in again it said I had to activate! :p

[trek]

I tried the lab for the previous versions 'test drive' and after I deleted the contents of the Word file as it suggests, "no previous versions" were found :(

[Boeing 787]

Please change the title to reflect that this is NOT a true Demo.

[Aero Ultimate]

Oh my, this is really lame... could some mod change the title to show it's just a webpage, nothing more?

[ZonoBurk]

[Code.Red]

Replying to let you guys know it's up again, if you want to try. :p

[Coolme]

wow, this is really neat. Thanks OP!

[Koolslacker]

Informative site for someone who is not sure about upgrading to Vista.

[I am Reid]

I tried to setup the tv tunner in media center, but it said it dosnt have a tunner. I think this is just a remote desktop connection to a secure pc, or something like that.

Im sure I can find a way to get around this and login under another account name.

Edited January 15, 2007 by reidtheweed01

[Code.Red]

After looking at the Device Manager, I was under the impression that it was just using emulation software like VMWare.

And you can login to the different accounts, they are there for a reason (testing out parental controls). If there's a password, try "password". :p

[Churma]

Hmm wonder what is on the pst file?

[Code.Red]

Outlook 2007 is installed on there, you can import it and see. It's all fake emails and stuff.

There's also a bunch of demo programs and stuff in the C:/DEMOS folder, but not too interesting.

Edited January 15, 2007 by Code.Red