Windows Vista BETA 2 Preview Screenshots!


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"Just weeks after releasing Windows Vista Beta 1, Microsoft has shifted our paradigms again, unveiling a preview of beta 2 at the TechEd 2005 developer conference this morning. Dan Warne reports from the Gold Coast. The gut-thumping hype was for the arrival of Microsoft big-wig Iain McDonald, Managing Director of the Windows Server group and also the dude that's in charge of bringing Windows Vista out of the dark recesses of Bill's beta cupboard and onto your home PC.

He was announced as "our very own Aussie success story"; McDonald is originally from Sydney and now works at Microsoft HQ and he swaggered onto the stage looking every bit the Aussie larrikin, complete with goatee, beer belly and fair dinkum Aussie accent.

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Nice to see that 3D alt-tab thing back. Wonder if it will have the 3D DWM stuff that 5048 had... from what i have seen, beta 1 doesnt have it... correct me if im wrong.

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nice alt tab. and billthy, solitaires just updated with custom backgrounds. sorry to say :p

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they said a while back it would all be updated with vector graphics. so the cards would be scalable. i think they said it for all games.

hell the whole os will be scalable so i guess the work is done.

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Can't wait for this build to be available for download.

Must be really soon now?

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Yup, should be around Sept 13th-16th, thats when the PDC is :)

The pre-conferences are 11th and 12th ;) If it leaks before or on those days we know its someone @ Microsoft leaking it, not beta testing monkeys :)

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Yup, should be around Sept 13th-16th, thats when the PDC is :)

The pre-conferences are 11th and 12th ;)  If it leaks before or on those days we know its someone @ Microsoft leaking it, not beta testing monkeys :)

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I'm no monkey :ninja: But I like to break my computer in new and interesting ways :laugh: with beta software. :yes:

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Is that the sidebar back in this release?

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no, i think that is just to do with solitare, because if you look at the other pictures of the main desktop, it isnt there.

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lol, nice first i thought it said "Mcdonalds is originally from Sydney..." and i was like, wtf, microsoft have a mcdonalds? :blink:

i noticed the spit on his chin too, haha :D

yay custom backgrounds for solitare!, now i can play pr0n solitare :rofl:

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