The CRN Test Center put Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 through its paces to see if the hoopla around the next-gen operating system is merited.

No interim Windows beta build, including 5472, is ever the refined, comparatively bug-free set of code that a more heavily tested Beta 2 is or Release Candidate 1 (RC1) will likely be.

The hours it'll take you to download Vista Beta 2 -- 9 hours using a 1.5Mbps connection (such as DSL) by Microsoft's estimate -- will be wasted if you don't have access to a DVD-RW drive.

That’s right, Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available to The Great Unwashed, but that availability is only theoretical, because the site was so crammed with eager Beta volunteers, it ...

Ars has a great in-depth piece on Vista Beta 2. We still haven't got our copy—nor are we holding our breath—but it's clearly an important look at an OS ...

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled Windows Vista Beta 2. The software giant is inviting comments in advance of Vista's scheduled launch date of January 2007. The new operating system comes with a ...

If it does turn out to be a bug then this means that it can get addressed and when Vista ships you'll have better OOB support.<BR><BR>If you don't file then you could end up with what you've got ...

Beta 2 x64 w/ an X800 card.<BR><BR>My drivers show up as the 7.7.9.0 from ATI, even though I didn't download or install them--I think Vista did it on it's own. Aero Glass interface runs pretty ...

Windows Vista SP1 will support Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), Intel standard for the interface between software, the operating system and firmware, and Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its Windows Vista beta code that sheds some light on how the software giant plans to improve networking and PC manageability in this next major release of ...