I give it a week....

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The toying is part of the testing - real user w/ various kinds of
needs/understanding on their own machines; otherwise, testing could be
completed in the labs.
Michael
 
I repeat, it is not a Consumer preview.

Michael said:
The toying is part of the testing - real user w/ various kinds of
needs/understanding on their own machines; otherwise, testing could be
completed in the labs.
Michael
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You're not getting his point. An OS is FAR more complex than an
application. We all understand what beta means.
 
Larry said:
You're not getting his point. An OS is FAR more complex than an
application. We all understand what beta means.
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Sorry but the content of many posts in these groups suggests otherwise.
 
If you're talking about MY point, that's exactly what I'm saying. I get
Vista and it is running fine on two of my machines (laptop and desktop).

It's NOT running on my production machine. That would be stupid!

Tom
 
AJR said:
The result is like "compound interest" - many have "killed" their XP
installations via Vista installs and are now posting to newsgroups on how
to get XP back running.
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How stupid are people to do an Upgrade install from XP to Vista Beta??!!
 
I have a test box where I can install XP SP2 and then test the upgrade
scenario. What is wrong with that?
 
Conor said:
Sorry but the content of many posts in these groups suggests otherwise.
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Good point. I especially love the posts complaining about "stupid nVidia"
or something similar because they don't have release level drivers yet for
Vista beta.
 
Yes, I was agreeing with you.

I run SCSI. I have x64 as my production OS on RAID 0. When I want to "test
drive" Vista, I simply change the drive from which I want to boot in the
SCSI bios when rebooting and boot to one of my other drives where Vista is
installed. No dual boot, no mixing OSs, nice and clean. If I want to dump
Vista, I simply format that drive from x64. Period.

Vista doesn't have RAID drivers yet and can't even see my array with my
programming stuff installed, which is just fine by me. Any data I want to
access from either OS (which is only test data really), I move to a 3rd
drive that can be seen from either OS.

Any moron complaining about beta anything is...well...a moron.

Anybody that replaces/upgrades their day-to-day OS with Vista beta, then
comes here to complain about it, is a moron.

Anybody that comes here to complain that Vista beta doesn't have release
level video and sound drivers by third party venders is a moron.

Anybody that claims an application beta is the same as an OS beta is a moron
and should stick to running Win98 or buy a Macintoy.

-Larry
 
If you want your software tested and usefull feedback - error reporting tool
style - you want it to run on as many machines as possible; it is your
interest to be so!
Now, you have corporate/business machines which are pretty much standard: on
board most anything (video, sound), 1x60+ IDE HDD, LAN... etc. You can ask
Dell to test it since the user on a corporate network is pretty much
restricted to use whatever the sys adm allows.
You have left the private/home users which have a variety of soft/hard
setups (multiple OS's, home networks, multiple storage arrays etc); this is
where you want to test if you release a public beta. Since you need as many
error reports as possible <g>, you make sure at least most common hardware
(audigy, nvidia, ati, intel raid etc) gets some support - nvidia already has
Vista Beta drivers, for ex.
This is where Vista Beta lacks preparation from the Vista team... makes it
look more like a PR stunt aimed at convincing stock holders that Vista is
almost there.
Michael
 
Colin Barnhorst said:
I have a test box where I can install XP SP2 and then test the upgrade
scenario. What is wrong with that?
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Sorry, I meant people doing Vista upgrade installs from their main/only XP
system! Obviously using test systems is not at all stupid :-)
 
How stupid are people to do an Upgrade install from XP to Vista Beta??!!

You're new around this newsgroup, aren't you? ;-)
 
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