Thoughts about Windows Vista "Ultimate Edition" Beta 2

This is just a general thought about the betas (not beta-build specific)To begin it SEEMED interesting, but there just wasn't enough new things.I must say if this is the ultimative version of Vista i'm way not impressed.Especially if there wouldn't be more contents downloadable (free off course)to the purchasers of Ultimate Edition. I don't see anything that you can't doin XP if you have a little experience. The only real benefit is the gfx. And thatsnot very important to me. The search system is a BIG disaster, and hopefullyfixed or taken out of the finished version. The Media Center part didn't impressme either. All in all a dissapointing experience eventhough i wasn't expeting tomuch. Many details seems usefull but are in fact popsmart features. In factit feels like it should be a free ugrade to Windows XP Pro users. To little, to latein my book. But before this ssems to slamming, the one thing that REALLY impressedme was the stability on my otherwise unstable system. THAT seems impressive.

Regards,Rasmus Bertelsen

All in all, I agree with you. Vista is basically XP with more Group Policy settings, a few new stacks, and media center. Oops, it appears I forgot WIM imaging and improved indexing... which works sometimes (if you're lucky). But as with any release, MS is trying it's damnist to make you upgrade. Take for example DX10. I don't know if you are a gamer, but MS is pushing developers (extremely) to develop for Vista, aka DX10, only. I personally can't see how any developer or publisher would do that, but with MS and their insistance, who knows. I can see it now, MS says "Since the NT 6.0 Kernal is SO different, we just can't support NT 5.0 anymore, so 2000 and XP will be unsupported starting Feburary of 2007". Maybe I shouldn't have said that, give them an idea. :( Only other, possible, rantional is IPv6... but alas it will be quite a while before IPv6 makes a big enough impact to care.

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