http://download.windowsvista.com/previe ... wnload.htm

Above is download for release candidate 1 of Windows Vista.

I did some testing on Beta 2. Above is getting close to what the actual release will look like in stores.

Warning: this is only for computer nerds to install on an non-important computer PC for testing purposes only. Don't install this thing on your gaming PC.

More info about Windows Vista can be seen at:
http://www.win-vista.net/

and offical Vista site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

Thanks......

Windows Vista RTM leaked online

Windows Vista RTM has leaked online, and is spreading rapidly over Bittorrent and IRC networks.

Build:6.0000
Long Build: 6000.16386.061101-2205 (RTM)
Compile date: November 1, 22:05 (10:05pm)

Windows Vista went RTM only a few days ago, and has not yet been released to MSDN or Volume Licensing customers.

"Cracks" that removes the need to activate within 30 days appeared online hours after the release, which could be installed without a cd-key.

The source for the leak is unknown.

You gotta love a good crack (_!_)

Wow, that didn't take long. What's the deal on M/B chipset and component drivers? Have they been released for this new 64 bit system?

I also here that the older DX9 files have been eliminated and some emulator now runs DX.

DX10 sounds cool, but no games have been written to use it yet have they??

SO is anybody actually using Vista around here?

I messed around with the beta version a bit. I'm sticking with XP myself. The new Halo is supposed to be made for DX 10 / Vista.

Pirates Spoof Vista's Enterprise Activation


Pirates are circulating a hack that lets them activate counterfeit copies of Windows Vista using a spoofed server that Microsoft relies on to make sure enterprises switch on the new operating system.
The software, loaded with the long name of "Microsoft.Windows.Vista.Local.Activation.Server-MelindaGates" is available on several pirate Web sites. It spoofs a Key Management Service server, one of the two technologies that Microsoft debuted last month that let businesses activate a large number of copies of Windows Vista. KMS requires that at least 25 PCs be connected to a corporation's network.

Vista is the first version of Windows that Microsoft requires volume license customers to activate. Besides KMS, the Redmond, Wash. developer also offers Multiple Activation Key, which resembles the retail version's activation process. PCs activated using KMS must reactivate at least once every six months.

The MelindaGates hack uses a VMware image of a KMS server to activate -- and keep activated -- a pirated edition of Windows Vista Business. "Looks like Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 is a big bust," wrote a user identified as "clank" on the PirateBay Web site Friday.

Like every edition of Windows, Vista has been plagued with counterfeit copies. Pirated editions with cracked activation keys were posted long before Microsoft officially launched the OS Nov. 30.

However, the Redmond, Wash. developer has gone to greater lengths to stymie counterfeiting, including the overall effort it's dubbed "VA 2.0" for Volume Activation 2.0, which uses a new set of technologies to activate and validate Vista and essentially turn off faux copies.

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