Windows Vista RC2 (Build 5744)

[Big Booger]

Windows Vista RC2 has been released by Microsoft. This is build 5744.

"This build (5744) has a number of improvements and updates from previous builds, and has been through daily testing processes to refine quality and performance. We are making this release available for a limited time only (and only by download) in order to get broad distribution and testing in a variety of PC configurations. Please note: This build may not have the same level of support or servicing via Windows Update as RC1, and you may not be able to upgrade from this build to the final version of Windows Vista."

:download: 32-bit (http://download.windowsvista.com/dl/preview/rc2/en/x86/iso/vista_5744.16384.061003-1945_x86fre_client-lrmcfre_en_dvd.iso) | 64-bit (http://download.windowsvista.com/dl/preview/rc2/en/x64/iso/vista_5744.16384.061003-1945_x64fre_client-lrmcxfre_en_dvd.iso) | Torrent Download (http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/876651/Windows_Vista_5744_RC2_X86_DVD_c0d3rz_32bit)

:view: Windows Vista homepage (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/)

[Big Booger]

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2157884/windows-vista-beta

Another link.

[Denyse]

When I went to that site, it still says...

Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available through the Customer Preview Program. Try this pre-release version of Windows Vista now.

So is it not just a new build of RC 1 ?

[PIPER]

Yup, same thing I get.....nothing about RC2

[Big Booger]

Blink And You Missed It: Vista RC2 Download Closed

Left-out users were irked that Microsoft Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 was only available for a short time.

By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb
Oct. 10, 2006
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193200281

As promised, Microsoft opened its newest build of Windows Vista to public downloading, but the short time that Release Candidate 2 (RC2) was available irked left-out users.

Friday, Microsoft unveiled Vista RC2 (build 5744) to select testers, saying that it would be the last interim release before the operating system was released to manufacturing. That day, Nick White, a program manager with the Vista launch group, said that participants in the Customer Preview Program (CPP) would also be given the chance to download the new code.

They were, beginning Friday night.

But on Monday morning Microsoft turned off the spigot, a move that distressed users who were too late or had only downloaded part of the massive .iso file.

"I got the download started, then it got interrupted right before it finished. Now the links don't work. Not fair," wrote someone identified as "Gary96LT4" on the Vista group's blog.

"Definitely a too short of a download window, only get notification of the rc2 release last nite [sic], now it's to [sic] late to download," wrote "Britedj." another blog commenter. "I feel like i have been cheated out of the update process."

Links on the blog which purport to take users to RC2 downloads instead redirect to the Windows Vista Web site, where only RC1 is available.

Microsoft is shooting for a delivery to volume licensees in November, and to retail customers via upgrades and new PCs in January 2007. Last week, Rick Sherlund, a noted Wall Street analyst with Goldman Sachs, said that he believed Vista would ship on schedule, a statement that sent Microsoft's stock into a small surge.

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=193200281

[Denyse]

So in essence, Microsoft is playing their old games again. Give a taste, and then screw as many people as possible. Thus people will buy it as soon as it comes out, and THEN complete the actual BETA TESTING, which has always been the case with them.

For some reason, people are willing to PAY to BETA test the new software... complain, and wait for a fix that could have been done in the first place.

This time, I am not going to play THEIR game. I will get a Pirated version, and use it until they get it fixed... then, and only then, purchase a copy.

[PIPER]

So in essence, Microsoft is playing their old games again. Give a taste, and then screw as many people as possible. Thus people will buy it as soon as it comes out, and THEN complete the actual BETA TESTING, which has always been the case with them.

For some reason, people are willing to PAY to BETA test the new software... complain, and wait for a fix that could have been done in the first place.

This time, I am not going to play THEIR game. I will get a Pirated version, and use it until they get it fixed... then, and only then, purchase a copy.

:eek:

[Coffee]

Hi :D , is this torrent link for the full version of RC2 ?

Thanks.

[Big Booger]

Hi :D , is this torrent link for the full version of RC2 ?

Thanks.

Yes it is AFAIK.