Windows Vista Beta 2 available now

(P.S. We have Win98, WinME, WinCE, and WinXP... what will we call Windows Vista?)

How about WiVi? It's the shortest thing that makes sense and also a nice Final Fantasy reference if someone remembers the cute little blackmage by that name (at least it sounds the same, he may be spelled differently).

Apart from that: The Beta is there THEORETICALLY. I've been trying to download all day. It always says that there is too much interest right now yadayadayada...

How about WinVI, or in other words, Win6. After all, it is technically Windows 6.0 isn't it?

Deffinetley WinVI. It has two meanings. Obviously VI = Vista and VI = 6, meaning the sixth OS... WinME doesn't count ;)

Maybe WinV? That is half of OSX, which is about right.

Just kidding.

I think people will just call it Vista, and leave the win part out.

Afterall, it is much different than previous versions of windows (because the majority of them are all built off the same platform.)

How about Wiindows Viista... seems to be popular these days... :-)

Windows 3.0, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows CE, Windows Mobile... the list goes on. Therefore this is not the sixth version. Not counting servers, it's AT LEAST the seventh.

er, not quite Jordon - NT 4.0 was NT 4.0, Windows 2000 was NT 5.0, Windows XP was 5.1, Server 2003 was 5.2(as is XP 64-bit) and Vista will be 6.0

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

I'd vote for WinV. Also, it was only going to cost me $6 to get the disc. I opted to download because I really just couldn't wait.

bout time ill be calling it win vis bc it keeps as much of the name as possible

Windows V for Vendetta

Its $10.xx shipped, $6 for the disc, $4.xx for shipping.
Also this build has some big issues with MediaCenter refusing to work for many people. (Black Screen, maybe DXVA related)
Incase you wonder how much space you will need, this puppy weighs in at 15GB installed! Atleast we can all have a buggy version of Vista Ultimate Edition for a year (timeout is this time 2007)
Microsoft's first consumer os that wont fit on a used xbox hdd!

"fit on a used xbox hdd!"
OMG thats too funny, them little 8 and 10 gigs work pretty good for cheap system drives!

I installed a few days ago. Vista's pretty rad. Once iTunes and AIM start working (iTunes takes vista out of the aero glass interface and AIM won't install period) I'm going to be using it instead of XP.

Nice OS, once the little bugs have been ironed out (which of course it IS Beta) then I think MS have a rock-steady OS on their hands.

Just gotta wait for the anti-MS people to come along and kick the thread to bits now.

The only thing I had problems with was my sound drivers. I just installed my old XP ones and they worked. I also found that turning off the security that blocks programs from having admin access if you have an admin account speeds up the system by 50%.

Explorer (the file manager) seems to chow up all disk access at times with installs. This may have something to do with the indexing service running while new files are being installed.

Setting Firefox to the default browser was a pain in the ass, but I finally figured out that even if I set the system to use Firefox I still had to turn off IE checking that it is the default browser otherwise it resets it.

All documents and settings have been moved to a new folder c:users
In your profile you will find 2 folders for applications. Local and Roaming. You want the roaming folder. For example if you use Firefox all the prefs and profile info needs to be in roaming or if you installed it already you will find it there.

This is like the #1 download in history. I guess here comes the microsoft offensive!

Neal Saferstein

It takes about 8 seconds to boot aginst 3.5 for XP... I'm a bit disappointed.