Feb CTP

C

Chuk

Today I attended a presentation by Microsoft on Vista.

At that presentation they handed out disks of the Vista Beta dated
February CTP with a warning not to install on a system holding any
critical data.

That is fair enough, and I have a spare disk whcih I can install on.

My query is as to whether there is likely to be any time limit on use
of this beta, because if so, I may hold off on installation until I
have upgraded my graphics card.

My existing system is an AMD Athlon XP 3000 with 1 gig RAM but the
card is only an NVIDIA GE Force 5200 with 128 meg.

Is this likely to run Vista reasonably?

Appreciate you advice.
 
J

Jason

It will most likely be a 1 year of use with the activation. As for your
system, it looks just fine. Not sure about glass, but you should still be
able to run vista. Zack or Andre will be able to tell you better then me if
it will run Glass.

--
Jason

Applied but still waiting to be accepted for the Vista Beta Testing group.
Can't wait to be able to play and help make it even better.

http://www.orderpcs4free.com/?r=878
 
A

Andre Da Costa [Extended64]

Z

Zack Whittaker

Yeh - generally it's not the card you need to worry about. If you bought a
new card, 64MB+ within the last 6 months it should run Glass. You just need
to make sure you can find drivers thats all ;o)

Minimum Glass requirements:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/graphics/minimumreqglass

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that up!

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K

Kevin John Panzke

According to the EULA the Febuary CTP expires on September 30th, 2006.
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

Mine says July 2007 - must be different because yours is MSDN perhaps?

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Zack Whittaker
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» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

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Z

Zack Whittaker

Where is that from? That's not from the Vista setup, and doesn't appear to
be a web page dialog either.

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Zack Whittaker
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» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

--: Original message follows :--
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

About 6-8GB or so.

--
Zack Whittaker
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» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

--: Original message follows :--
 
K

Kevin John Panzke

It might help if you Reduce your Display Screen Resolution to 800 X 600
(which is what I am using, and I can read it just fine, thank you very
much).
 
K

Kevin John Panzke

Type in WINVER at the Run Command and then Click on End User License
Agreement (EULA).
 
K

Kevin John Panzke

That is the Official EULA that is included with my MSDN Copy of Build 5308
CTP.
 
F

Frank

Kevin said:
That is the Official EULA that is included with my MSDN Copy of Build
5308 CTP.
Click to expand...

Then your copy is an illegal pirated copy.
You need to turn yourself in right away!
Frank
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

This is most likely a bug then. They might not have got round to changing
the EULA. Don't take everything so literally.

--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

--: Original message follows :--
 
Z

Zack Whittaker

Well done in showing your Product ID to the world... you've just "violated
your MSDN NDA".

--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

--: Original message follows :--
 
J

Jason

LOL, how ironic.

Zack Whittaker said:
Well done in showing your Product ID to the world... you've just "violated
your MSDN NDA".

--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

--: Original message follows :--
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