~impuLsive Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 http://bink.nu/Article7729.bink Microsoft this week plans another Vista beta 2 drop that is promised to hog fewer system resources.At Microsoft's Velocity 2006 worldwide partner conference in Boston Tuesday, a Microsoft executive said the updated beta will be available to Technet subscribers "in a few days." "Vista in its beta form is pretty taxing on the system. It's slow and a little non-responsive," said Mike Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows client marketing at Microsoft. "That piece of software is now about nine weeks old and that may not sound like a lot but at this stage, that's an old version in software terms." "You'll see a huge difference [in performance]," Sievert said of the interim release, noting Microsoft is recommending 512 Megabytes of memory when testing the new code. Since I have 512 MB RAM, I cant wait. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko_x Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 omg can't wait!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Elі Subscriber² Posted July 13, 2006 Subscriber² Share Posted July 13, 2006 Great news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted July 13, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2006 Awesome :happy: Radish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Awesome! Thanks for posting, I can't wait to install it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted July 13, 2006 MVC Share Posted July 13, 2006 nice, boost us baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Damn, I was hoping it was a public release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Cool! Looking forward to this :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishrman Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 (edited) Damn, I was hoping it was a public release. Well, its only going to be an interim anyways - not milestone quality, like RC1 will be, which is supposed to be public, or rather, released through the normal channels + the "CPP". So don't worry, your time will come :). Edited July 13, 2006 by aeden_p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~impuLsive Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 Damn, I was hoping it was a public release. There wont be a public release most likely ever again. They might decide to give out another Beta to the public a month or two before the official release, but dont expect anything. Windows Vista has over 10,000 testers (Or was itover 25,000?), and thats well plenty to get alot of the bugs out. Well see how It goes. Also, this build is a pre-release (I guess Ill call it that...) of RC1. It is a build to make sure most bugs have been taken out of the build, and most bugs arent really visible to the human eye. If there are bugs, they will eventually be fixed in RC1 or a later build. Got to remember this isnt final so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike E Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 There wont be a public release most likely ever again. They might decide to give out another Beta to the public a month or two before the official release, but dont expect anything. Windows Vista has over 10,000 testers (Or was itover 25,000?), and thats well plenty to get alot of the bugs out. Well see how It goes. There WILL be another public release, it's called RC1. If you ordered the beta 2 DVD kit you'll get the RC1 DVD kit. But anyway...I can't wait until this weekend! :D :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdsams Veteran Posted July 13, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2006 MS ususally doesnt release things like this on the weekend do they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taimur Asad Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Cant wait to get my hands on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranta Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I don't know which build it was but I'm sure I remember a Vista build being release on a Saturday once before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted July 13, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2006 i'll get my downloading server ready!! W000t!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 MS ususally doesnt release things like this on the weekend do they? Yeah not usually. Though they have done it before...I think a few builds ago it dropped on a Saturday night to everyone's surprise. I'd say Monday if I had to take a guess. Good news about the memory...even if i have 2GB ;) This is great news though, 5456 has been running great with almost no problems, but I was ready for an update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDevil Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 :) I didint even tried the latest yet lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool_chris_1990 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Is there a date on RC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 good news, thanks for the heads up :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Ark Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 I run 5456 on my "craptop" lol.. cant wait for the updated basic GUI and ram improvements.. it should make my craptop's vista experience better appart for my super desktop machine which runs glass and all that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipdo Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 (edited) um, well, it might not be over the weekend...at least according to what I've seen from some MS people. But that doesn't mean it can't be today...I guess we'll just have to wait and see :whistle: hmm...i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if a build is released today, it will likely be 5472.4... Edited July 14, 2006 by pipdo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Yes can't wait. But then I can wait because there will be slow server speeds from connect I bet. Oh well. worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalguy90 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 MS ususally doesnt release things like this on the weekend do they? i dont remember the build, but there was a build that was released friday late EST (on connect), but they didnt announce the new build to connect testers till monday. (probably to save servers from everyone downloading it immediately). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift_Monkey Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Damn.... Just downloaded and installed 5456. :laugh: I guess downloading another build overnight wont hurt. :rolleyes: Even if it is just a crappy Ahtlon XP 1800+ I'm running it on. :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Dee Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Yeah not usually. Though they have done it before...I think a few builds ago it dropped on a Saturday night to everyone's surprise. I'd say Monday if I had to take a guess. Good news about the memory...even if i have 2GB ;) This is great news though, 5456 has been running great with almost no problems, but I was ready for an update. It was 5456 that was released on a Saturday, so its not impossible for them to do the same again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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