A few days after the release of the Windows Vista December CTP (build 5270) Paul Thurrott has put up a comprehensive review of it and claims as expected to already know most -if not all, the features in the build before anyone else.
He starts off by saying: "
I think people are going to be surprised by how good the Windows Vista December 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP, or build 5270) really is." We are, right again Paul!
Snippet: "In a conference call with the press Monday, Shanen Boettcher, the senior director of the Windows Client group, announced the new features in the December Vista CTP build and inadvertently verified my earlier report that the next Vista CTP build will occur in February 2006--not January, as previously expected."
Snippet: "In a conference call with the press Monday, Shanen Boettcher, the senior director of the Windows Client group, announced the new features in the December Vista CTP build and inadvertently verified my earlier report that the next Vista CTP build will occur in February 2006--not January, as previously expected."
Part 2 is expected to go online today.
View: Part 1 of the Full Article @ The WinSuperSite
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<P>it can be changed by rightclicking on teh desktop.</P>
<P>Note how he dated his article? "8-20???" </P>
<P>MS does not give him insider builds anymore I hear.... </P>
<P>http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/43</P>
http://boxednews.com/vista5270/
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For example: When you're remote desktop-ing, the shutdown button is replaced by a disconnect button by default (at least in XP).
Also basic operations speak nothing to the application hibernation processes used with patch management. A restart or a shutdown -- even accidental -- that preserves application space data, along with an increased boot time, is almost a non-factor.
Time will tell how well it really works in the finished product once they decide specifically how to implement all their new features.
The world is not filled with computer literates, and things like this WILL confuse, gawd I hope they put the text back in.
My biggest concern is with the screenshoot of the Scale tab on the display settings dialog. There is a note at the bottom that says changes will require restarting. First, I find it odd that MS would take a completely new technology like this and implement it in a way that requires restarting (perhaps that will change in later builds). Second, the fact that it asks for a restart seems to imply that it is a system setting; I would want that to be a user setting. What if I have a really high-res display and I want to see as much information as possible, but my wife prefers the larger print?
No we shouldn't. Comments like that could be bad for Neowin because if it were to actually happen we would be responsible. Don't mention it again.
--matt74441
Last edited by #8.1 [bear] on 21 Dec 2005 - 15:08
I'm a mac user and vista has grown by leaps and bounds from the disaster it was a few months ago. Give Microsoft some credit and also.. Paul is just doing a review.. I didn't see anything wrong with that article.
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