Vistamania: Chris Jones Announces Beta 2 Availability

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Among all the mania of people stumbling over each other to get the CPP we missed the official video announcement! Better late than never, here follows the official announcement to The Hive.

"Chris Jones, a corporate Vice President for Windows, took some time to share some very exciting news with The Hive - availability of Windows Vista beta 2.

As members of The Hive, you are some of Microsoft’s most technically-savvy and enthusiastic users, and we wanted to give you an opportunity to be first to obtain the code before we more formally announce the CPP’s availability tomorrow."

That was posted almost 11 hours ago to The Hive, just after we announced it here at Neowin. I thought it would be cool to post for anybody that cares to view his announcement.

I wonder how many non-beta-neowin-members have been able to download and install by now? Drop a comment if you were succesful with downloading and installing. Also leave a note if this replaces Windows XP as your primary OS.

Video: Chris Jones Announces Beta 2 Availability

#1 Sniper101 on 08 Jun 2006 - 10:37

The Video Was Interesting

i kinda liked it...im currently Still downloading the File and it is shutting off nearly all the time...im at 31%

thats slow but its because im on a network and People are coming through my computer on to the internet so im going very very slow

#2 roadwarrior on 08 Jun 2006 - 11:09

I had downloaded the ISO's from a newsgroup right after they were released to MSDN subscribers last week, so fortunately I didn't have to deal with the problems of downloading them from Microsoft. Got my keys (did anyone else have trouble printing the page with the key from the website? Mine came out with the key not visible in the yellow box, although everything else was OK.) from Microsoft last night and am installing on my x64 machine right now. I'll probably install it on my x86 machine after I've tested it for a week or so on x64 (need to upgrade the RAM in the x86 box anyway).

(2 replies) #3 Septimus on 08 Jun 2006 - 11:17

Downloaded in 13 minutes. Great direct link, cheers Neowin.

Will install tomorrow when I get time.

#3.1 mac15 on 08 Jun 2006 - 11:48

13 minutes? What kind of bloody connection do you have?

#3.2 Septimus on 08 Jun 2006 - 13:09

1GB Link.

#4 jpack on 08 Jun 2006 - 11:44

Downloaded the ISO last night after the Neowin anouncement. No real problems downloading and connection speed was great. Only dropped connection once. I plan on installing in VMWare and testing for a few days, then will install and replace XP as the primary OS on my machine.

#5 Joni_78 on 08 Jun 2006 - 12:20

Been running as my main OS for about a week now, after I figured how to properly setup Media Center TV-out with these nvidia drivers to 720x576@50Hz. Haven't had any crashes or bugs, and everything I use works beautifully. But I only use computer for word, email, web, music and video. If you are a gamer, then I doubt anything works fluently and without problems.

#6 kingdavies on 08 Jun 2006 - 15:15

Im just downloading windows vista now off http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/enus/register.aspx

#7 7 Fifty-Two on 08 Jun 2006 - 15:25

I finally got it downloaded, but I wouldn't suggest the MS downloader software. It kept disconnecting on me every 5 minutes. I ended up just doing the regular download and it only took a couple hours.

#8 whitedragon on 08 Jun 2006 - 15:40

I downloaded it through Beta News (x64). It's replaced XP on my machine, but I have a current Ghost backup of it, just in case. Seems stable enough, haven't tried gaming yet, tho. My biggest gripe is the lack of real-time Antivirus protection. Neither the CA or TrendMicro worked properly on x64.

#9 blackcat77 on 08 Jun 2006 - 15:59

AVAST has a anti-virus for 64-bit.

#10 Ironman2003 on 08 Jun 2006 - 19:49

Downloaded fine here, but had to spend about 6 hours doing it. The built in downloader didn't work too well. I used Getright Beta and it did fine.

Burned to the DVD this AM, but have yet to try it. At work right now.

#11 chisss on 08 Jun 2006 - 19:53

i tried and it said it was too busy.. try again later... bah

#12 djurbino on 09 Jun 2006 - 01:04

I had 100mb left, and then it stopped and the 3G I had downloaded was lost and replaced with a 1k html file saying:

"Access denied.

Please go to http://www.windowsvista.com/getready/preview"

If you try to download now, it takes you to a page that says the same thing.

Thanks, MS. 16 hours and 3G of my quota wasted.

(1 reply) #13 Z3r0 on 09 Jun 2006 - 06:14

it isn't Microsofts fault that you didn't use a download manager, at least if you had, you would've been able to resume from another location or via bitorrent

they should've provided torrents tbh

Last edited by Z3r0 on 09 Jun 2006 - 07:24

#13.1 djurbino on 09 Jun 2006 - 08:02

Don't assume. It makes an ass out of you and -- no, wait, just you.

I did use a download manager. And it worked fine -- until MS hijacked the link to the .iso and redirected it to a .htm file.

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