Vista Beta 2 - December 7, 2005


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Despite rumors to the contrary, but in keeping with the schedule I first published on the SuperSite for Windows months ago, Microsoft is planning to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 in late 2005, not in early 2006. According to internal documentation I recently reviewed, Vista Beta 2 is scheduled to be "feature complete" by September 29, 2005. Then, Vista Beta 2 will enter lockdown mode between October and November 9, 2005. After that date, Beta 2 will be in escrow. Microsoft now plans to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 on December 7, 2005, about three weeks later than the last schedule I obtained.

What about post-Beta 2? According to a second set of documentation I viewed Monday, Microsoft will ship Windows Vista Release Candidate 0 (RC0) on April 19, 2006, and Windows Vista RC1 on June 28, 2006. Microsoft currently plans to release Windows Vista to manufacturing on August 9, 2006, and make the product broadly available by November 15, 2006.

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I don't know about this here, but here's what i came across:

Beta testers for Windows Vista Beta 1 have already begun to notice Microsoft's quick turnaround on bugs that have been filed against the product. Hundreds of bugs have been filed against Vista since it was officially released to testers, and already 30% are marked as Closed or Resolved. Because of the short deadline Microsoft has put in place for Beta 2, developers are said to be working long hours, sometimes over 80 hours a week, to crank out these Beta 1 bugs and get them fixed.

Although many bugs and feature requests remain in the Open status, testers have noticed that at least every single item is being looked at quickly and triaged to the appropriate department within Microsoft. One of the most interesting features that Microsoft has implemented for the Beta 1 feedback on Microsoft Connect, the Windows Vista Beta website, is the ability for testers to rank the importance of other bugs written by fellow testers. The have the ability to rank problems on a 1 to 5 scale, 5 being the highest, as well as having the ability to add comments and to validate the issue at hand. "We've been able to prioritize fixes much easier this time around" said John Tinger, a Software Test Engineer in the Windows Beta division.

Expect a Beta 2 of Vista between November 2005 and Early 2006.

And i got that from www.thehotfix.net

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feature lock down as soon as october? wow...that's quick....almost making me kind of nervious seeing microsoft moving so fast...:laugh:

good news any how, MS keeped their dead line for beta 1, let's hope for the same on Beta 2

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I don't know about this here, but here's what i came across:

Beta testers for Windows Vista Beta 1 have already begun to notice Microsoft's quick turnaround on bugs that have been filed against the product. Hundreds of bugs have been filed against Vista since it was officially released to testers, and already 30% are marked as Closed or Resolved. Because of the short deadline Microsoft has put in place for Beta 2, developers are said to be working long hours, sometimes over 80 hours a week, to crank out these Beta 1 bugs and get them fixed.

Although many bugs and feature requests remain in the Open status, testers have noticed that at least every single item is being looked at quickly and triaged to the appropriate department within Microsoft. One of the most interesting features that Microsoft has implemented for the Beta 1 feedback on Microsoft Connect, the Windows Vista Beta website, is the ability for testers to rank the importance of other bugs written by fellow testers. The have the ability to rank problems on a 1 to 5 scale, 5 being the highest, as well as having the ability to add comments and to validate the issue at hand. "We've been able to prioritize fixes much easier this time around" said John Tinger, a Software Test Engineer in the Windows Beta division.

Expect a Beta 2 of Vista between November 2005 and Early 2006.

And i got that from www.thehotfix.net

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Kind of makes the Microsoft-bashers look rather silly, doesn't it?

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Cool. A feature lock doesn't surpise me. I think Beta 2 will be a huge update. In a few weeks, they are releasing a Beta 1 refresh to testers right?

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Hundreds of bugs have been filed against Vista since it was officially released to testers, and already 30% are marked as Closed or Resolved.

With all the Beta testing how come there is so many bugs and exploits on the final release. Vista SP5 is due in mid-2007.

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Hundreds of bugs have been filed against Vista since it was officially released to testers, and already 30% are marked as Closed or Resolved.

With all the Beta testing how come there is so many bugs and exploits on the final release. Vista SP5 is due in mid-2007.

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What the fork are you talking about? Vista SP5? We'd see that in maybe 2010!

This is beta software you fool!

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Hundreds of bugs have been filed against Vista since it was officially released to testers, and already 30% are marked as Closed or Resolved.

With all the Beta testing how come there is so many bugs and exploits on the final release. Vista SP5 is due in mid-2007.

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How do you know that? Have you even seen the final release?

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I will wait until they RC (release candidate) be out for testers, I'm not going to waste my time downloading a beta 2  :sleep:

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Beta 1 was a waste of time downloading, however Beta 2 is supposed to be far more functional and featureful - I wouldn't jump at downloading it, but certainly would look into it.

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Cool.  A feature lock doesn't surpise me.  I think Beta 2 will be a huge update.  In a few weeks, they are releasing a Beta 1 refresh to testers right?

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I hope to get a copy of that at the PDC!!!

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The big thing in beta 2 i'm mostly waitting for is windows media player 11 beta which is due out with vista beta 2 and also it's going to be coming out for xp at the same time.

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Everyone going to try to upgrade from their current version to Vista when rc1 is released? I might if driver support and software that works is there.

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feature lock down as soon as october? wow...that's quick....almost making me kind of nervious seeing microsoft moving so fast...:laugh:

good news any how, MS keeped their dead line for beta 1, let's hope for the same on Beta 2

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:) Hillarious. I agree. Something has got to be wrong here. I said by Christmas before, but we'll be luck to see 2 by March !

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feature lock down as soon as october? wow...that's quick....almost making me kind of nervious seeing microsoft moving so fast...:laugh:

good news any how, MS keeped their dead line for beta 1, let's hope for the same on Beta 2

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Feature lockdown for beta 2, not RTM.basically, this when the code will be forked to a beta 2 and a post-beta 2 branch

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