Download your Windows Vista RC1 here!

September 6, 2006 By

Neowin comes through, as usual: Windows Vista RC1 Available to the Masses. Off to download. I miss the good old days when you had to download Windows 95 betas via a 28.8 kbps modem. Ahh, the youth today. So spoiled. :-)

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  • met

    Can I keep my XP intallation intact?

  • met

    Can I keep my XP intallation intact?

  • Jon

    Nope… you gotta install it on a new partition or or a new computer if you wanna keep your current XP install… Else use virtualServer or something…

  • Jon

    Nope… you gotta install it on a new partition or or a new computer if you wanna keep your current XP install… Else use virtualServer or something…

  • met

    Thanks Jon, I’ll try it on a different partition then.

  • met

    Thanks Jon, I’ll try it on a different partition then.

  • RL

    Thanks, Scoble. I never recieved my CPP email today and have been looking all over for trusted links to get in.

  • RL

    Thanks, Scoble. I never recieved my CPP email today and have been looking all over for trusted links to get in.

  • RL

    Only 6 hrs and 7 minutes to go!!

  • RL

    Only 6 hrs and 7 minutes to go!!

  • http://ajaydsouza.wordpress.com/ Ajay

    Open only for the Microsoft CPP.

    I’m not a member, so it’s going to be wait and watch.

  • http://ajaydsouza.wordpress.com/ Ajay

    Open only for the Microsoft CPP.

    I’m not a member, so it’s going to be wait and watch.

  • http://www.tekpool.com/ Tekpooler

    Hope it doesn’t bring down the Internet :)

  • http://www.tekpool.com Tekpooler

    Hope it doesn’t bring down the Internet :)

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  • http://sachinsucks.wordpress.com/ sachinsucks

    So, Robert, have you downloaded it yet? Would like to hear your views on RC1, especially since you were of the opinion that Vista wasn’t ready for primetime yet.

  • http://sachinsucks.wordpress.com/ sachinsucks

    So, Robert, have you downloaded it yet? Would like to hear your views on RC1, especially since you were of the opinion that Vista wasn’t ready for primetime yet.

  • http://www.istartedsomething.com/ Long Zheng

    For a guide on how to install/uninstall the Vista beta alongside your XP install, http://www.istartedsomething.com/20060622/installing-and-uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/

  • http://www.istartedsomething.com Long Zheng

    For a guide on how to install/uninstall the Vista beta alongside your XP install, http://www.istartedsomething.com/20060622/installing-and-uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/

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  • http://www.PuraniJeansAurGuitar.blogspot.com Balaji M

    :-) …

    The youth of today. i was just imagining how it would have been to download it via dial in…

  • http://www.PuraniJeansAurGuitar.blogspot.com/ Balaji M

    :-) …

    The youth of today. i was just imagining how it would have been to download it via dial in…

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  • http://infotechbuzz.com/ Sam

    What good does having the link do you if you dont have a key from the CPP program?

  • http://infotechbuzz.com Sam

    What good does having the link do you if you dont have a key from the CPP program?

  • http://MehrdadLive.spaces.live.com/ Mehrdad Afshari

    Good old days!? I’ve downloaded RC1 over 128Kbps connection. It took about 40 hours to download :( Much worse than 30MB for 95, it was a 2.65GB file!

  • http://MehrdadLive.spaces.live.com Mehrdad Afshari

    Good old days!? I’ve downloaded RC1 over 128Kbps connection. It took about 40 hours to download :( Much worse than 30MB for 95, it was a 2.65GB file!

  • http://polizeros.com/ Bob Morris

    Gee, grandpa, what’s a “28 kbps modem”?

  • http://bobmorris.wordpress.com/ bobmorris

    Gee, grandpa, what’s a “28 kbps modem”?

  • Dwayne Scribner

    If I am not mistaken, I am pretty sure I downloaded Windows 95 beta at 14.4 bps! Yes you are right..things have SO changed.

  • Dwayne Scribner

    If I am not mistaken, I am pretty sure I downloaded Windows 95 beta at 14.4 bps! Yes you are right..things have SO changed.

  • Mike

    Any reports of this working on a mac/bootcamp rig?

  • Mike

    Any reports of this working on a mac/bootcamp rig?

  • http://hauntingthunder.wordpress.com/ Neuromancer

    28.8

    Hah kids today – iused to think 300 baud was fast – i actly toyed with the idea of geting our electroncs shop to build our own modems (using the design publised in BYTE)

    I alos found this ;-)

    Man 1: Who’d ‘ave thought, 10 year ago, we’d all be sitting ‘ere surfing t’internet wi’ multimedia Pentiums eh?

    Man 2: Aye, in them days, we were glad to have a twin floppy IBM PC.

    Man 3: 5 1/4 inch floppies…….

    Man 4: Wi’owt Windows or CD Roms……..

    Man 3: …..or processor.

    Man 2: O’course, we were poor. We couldn’t afford an IBM PC….we used to ‘ave to use a Z80 machine running CPM.

    Man 3: Luxury! All we ‘ad was a 10 digit, 10 foot wide thermal print-out mains powered calculator.

    Man 4: Mains powered? You were lucky. We used to have to use a battery powered 8 digit Sinclair calculator – and it were wi’out an equals key.

    Man 3: Well….when I say mains powered, one ‘us ‘ad t’pedal generator for 3 days t’get enough power for one simple addition of two single digit
    numbers – provided the sum was less than 10 – but it were a calculator to us.

    Man 2: Our machine developed a fault in it’s 4k memory – we ‘ad t’ throw it out and use a manually cranked Odhner calculator….

    Man 1: Oh, we used to dream of ‘avin’ an Odhner – it woulda been a super-computer to us. All we ever ‘ad were an abacus, an’ even that didn’t ‘ave any beads. We used to ‘ave t’memorise the numbers, do the sums in
    our ‘eds, then we used to ‘ave to carve the right number of beads out of solid granite.

    Man 3: Mind you y’know, we ‘ad it tough. Our house (well -hole in the ground covered wi’ a sheet – but it were an ‘ouse to us) were too small and damp to ‘ave a computer. We used to have t’ use the local University’s Univac mainframe. The huge 8k core memory were housed one of hundreds of cabinets in a room the size of a football stadium. It took a week to walk from the console to
    the card reader. There were 20 of us manually punching’ cards 25 hours a night for 8 days a week for 5 years, and that were just to get it to boot.

    Man 1: And you try to tell the young people of today that….. and they won’t believe you.

  • http://hauntingthunder.wordpress.com/ Neuromancer

    28.8

    Hah kids today – iused to think 300 baud was fast – i actly toyed with the idea of geting our electroncs shop to build our own modems (using the design publised in BYTE)

    I alos found this ;-)

    Man 1: Who’d ‘ave thought, 10 year ago, we’d all be sitting ‘ere surfing t’internet wi’ multimedia Pentiums eh?

    Man 2: Aye, in them days, we were glad to have a twin floppy IBM PC.

    Man 3: 5 1/4 inch floppies…….

    Man 4: Wi’owt Windows or CD Roms……..

    Man 3: …..or processor.

    Man 2: O’course, we were poor. We couldn’t afford an IBM PC….we used to ‘ave to use a Z80 machine running CPM.

    Man 3: Luxury! All we ‘ad was a 10 digit, 10 foot wide thermal print-out mains powered calculator.

    Man 4: Mains powered? You were lucky. We used to have to use a battery powered 8 digit Sinclair calculator – and it were wi’out an equals key.

    Man 3: Well….when I say mains powered, one ‘us ‘ad t’pedal generator for 3 days t’get enough power for one simple addition of two single digit
    numbers – provided the sum was less than 10 – but it were a calculator to us.

    Man 2: Our machine developed a fault in it’s 4k memory – we ‘ad t’ throw it out and use a manually cranked Odhner calculator….

    Man 1: Oh, we used to dream of ‘avin’ an Odhner – it woulda been a super-computer to us. All we ever ‘ad were an abacus, an’ even that didn’t ‘ave any beads. We used to ‘ave t’memorise the numbers, do the sums in
    our ‘eds, then we used to ‘ave to carve the right number of beads out of solid granite.

    Man 3: Mind you y’know, we ‘ad it tough. Our house (well -hole in the ground covered wi’ a sheet – but it were an ‘ouse to us) were too small and damp to ‘ave a computer. We used to have t’ use the local University’s Univac mainframe. The huge 8k core memory were housed one of hundreds of cabinets in a room the size of a football stadium. It took a week to walk from the console to
    the card reader. There were 20 of us manually punching’ cards 25 hours a night for 8 days a week for 5 years, and that were just to get it to boot.

    Man 1: And you try to tell the young people of today that….. and they won’t believe you.

  • http://billyocean.wordpress.com/ mattbear

    Microsoft is saying the CPP program will open to new participants “about a week” after they make RC1 available to existing CPP participants – which was Sept. 5.

  • http://billyocean.wordpress.com/ mattbear

    Microsoft is saying the CPP program will open to new participants “about a week” after they make RC1 available to existing CPP participants – which was Sept. 5.

  • Andy

    You can phone activate this version of Vista so do that if you don’t already have a key.

  • Andy

    You can phone activate this version of Vista so do that if you don’t already have a key.

  • Ross

    @20 – As of today, and after installing an update, you can run Vista in Parallels on an Intel Mac (or Mac Pro). Vista in a Window … mmmm.

  • Ross

    @20 – As of today, and after installing an update, you can run Vista in Parallels on an Intel Mac (or Mac Pro). Vista in a Window … mmmm.

  • Jack

    If I am not mistaken, I am pretty sure I downloaded Windows 95 beta at 14.4 bps! Yes you are right..things have SO changed.

    Hehe, I remember getting Win NT 3.51 or some old version of Office on floppy disks. Actually, I still have Windows 2.1 on four blue floppy disks…;-)

  • Jack

    If I am not mistaken, I am pretty sure I downloaded Windows 95 beta at 14.4 bps! Yes you are right..things have SO changed.

    Hehe, I remember getting Win NT 3.51 or some old version of Office on floppy disks. Actually, I still have Windows 2.1 on four blue floppy disks…;-)

  • Timothy McClanahan

    Normally I’d wait for they beta they call “release,” but this time, I’m avoiding the whole “new generation of Windows” mess altogether – I’m installing Ubuntu Linux this weekend on my new Core 2 Duo machine.

  • Timothy McClanahan

    Normally I’d wait for they beta they call “release,” but this time, I’m avoiding the whole “new generation of Windows” mess altogether – I’m installing Ubuntu Linux this weekend on my new Core 2 Duo machine.

  • http://acidzebra.blogspot.com/ Michiel

    …experience has taught me to wait at least until SP2 before I try any microsoft product ;)

  • http://acidzebra.blogspot.com Michiel

    …experience has taught me to wait at least until SP2 before I try any microsoft product ;)

  • Varun

    Scoble, I don’t know if you still have any leverage with the Windows folks, but as I was typing into a text box on a website, a bright red UAC dialog box stole focus as I clicked space. I’ve no idea what I clicked yes or no to, and this is a security dialog box! If you do have leverage, tell the UAC UI designer to never, ever have his box steal focus. Good grief.

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