Windows Vista December CTP Today?

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Paul apparently knows that beta testers will get this today, since he posted this last wednesday and hasn't updated it since it will be interesting to see if he's correct.

Taken from WinInfo: Sources at Microsoft told me that the eagerly awaited Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of Windows Vista will be delivered to beta testers on Monday. According to my sources, the CTP is build 5270 (5270.x86fre.winmain_idx03.051212-1830).

In various meetings with the Windows Vista team last week, I was told that the December CTP would be build 5276 "give or take one build." The Vista team demonstrated builds 5270 and 5276 at that time.

Microsoft recently altered its delivery schedule for Windows Vista to focus more on CTP builds, which might be released as often as once every month, but probably less often on major beta milestones. The company had originally planned to ship a public preview version of Windows Vista Beta 2 by the end of 2005, but that preview will likely be based on a future CTP build and will arrive in the first half of 2006.

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#1 Analise6590 on 19 Dec 2005 - 11:50

There's an update on this!

see here http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ctp_update.asp

Regards,
Paulo

#2 Ideas Man on 19 Dec 2005 - 12:36

Damn I hope so, hopefully SATA support will be good in this build

(4 replies) #3 Neobond on 19 Dec 2005 - 12:37

Its not already supported?

I have SATA and I test Vista.

#3.1 Jason on 19 Dec 2005 - 14:06

Working for quite a few on XP as well.

#3.2 Ideas Man on 19 Dec 2005 - 14:51

Sorry, maybe it's just SATA RAID that it doesn't like then. It's either my SATA or the SATA RAID configuration, either way, I had to load the damn driver disk for XP (Which is a major pain when you don't have a floppy drive

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#3.3 Jugalator on 19 Dec 2005 - 15:09

Yeah, I think some motherboards don't show the SATA as regular ATA to the OS so you need special driver disks. I also don't have probs with this in Vista, but then again, I doubt Windows even see it as SATA, as I didn't even need any disks for the base XP install.

#3.4 SFalcon on 19 Dec 2005 - 17:30

@1.3 I believe XP SP2 recognizes S-ATA drives during the install, not S-ATA RAID though afaik.

#4 Ytterbium on 19 Dec 2005 - 13:09

I imagine F6 is fixed, athough gettign drives is probally still a problem

#5 CiwirXP on 19 Dec 2005 - 13:19

I hope this build will suport my notebook "Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V8010" :-)

#6 naap51stang on 19 Dec 2005 - 13:29

Yeah, but will it run on a P3?

#7 ArBoK on 19 Dec 2005 - 13:58

i hope they fixed the Athlon XP issue...

(1 reply) #8 tunafish on 19 Dec 2005 - 14:21

its monday were is it?

#8.1 Jugalator on 19 Dec 2005 - 15:10

Later on the monday? :p

#9 Iamit2900 on 19 Dec 2005 - 14:42

One step closer to being released

(1 reply) #10 NightRaven3 on 19 Dec 2005 - 15:06

I really doubt Microsoft would deliver in internal build to as a CTP. The build number may be correct, but it won't be an IDX build.

#10.1 iCeFuSiOn on 19 Dec 2005 - 15:18

Just because IDX is in the build string doesnt mean its not the CTP. The last 2 CTPs had IDX in their build string as well.

#11 Nexx295 on 19 Dec 2005 - 16:11

Oh great... and I spent all night installing build 5231.

Anyway, good news. I can hardly wait to test the new CTP.

#12 matrix4123 on 19 Dec 2005 - 17:28

An MS employee blog states they are released today:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/20.../19/505502.aspx

#13 madnuke on 19 Dec 2005 - 18:28

9 AM EST? Thats passed.

#14 lebmike on 19 Dec 2005 - 18:33

is this going on MSDN too?

#15 Summoner on 19 Dec 2005 - 18:34

THE DECEMBER CTP IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR BETA TESTERS AND MSDN UNIVERSAL SUBSCRIBERS!!!

#16 jwjw1 on 19 Dec 2005 - 18:35

I like how the 5270 DVD is set up...with both 32bit Client and Server.

#17 Nexx295 on 19 Dec 2005 - 19:02

Nice... downloading now.

#18 madda on 19 Dec 2005 - 20:03

its not available for msdn professional subscribers at the moment

lucky im on the beta!!

Downloading now

How does the client/server thing work? Does it just ask you which one you want to install on boot?

Anyone trying it on vmware or virtual pc?

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