Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Aug 2006 18:38 UTC
eWeek's review of the latest Vista build is pretty positive: "On Aug. 25, Microsoft released to testers Vista Build 5536, the latest in a long line of sneak peeks at Microsoft's forthcoming desktop operating system. eWEEK Labs' tests of Build 5536 show that the operating system is gaining speed and losing quirks as its release nears." They also made a pretty screenshot gallery. In addition, everybody's favourite 
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I'm pretty curious to see how Vista is received by the general public. Will there be massive hype, will people only get it with new systems?
This may (knowing Microsoft, will) change in a big way as we near the release date - and two months away from the business release, I suspect we ARE actually nearing it now - but right now, I suspect the general public would say, "Windows what?"
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This release is seeming like a glacier. Slow, big, yet unstoppable, and capable of changing the landscape around it. It'ss get here eventually and things should be interesting.
I grinned at your description of Thurott. Also at this sentence: "Though the three times performance improvement baloney you might have read elsewhere is not only impossible but untrue." I like how he distinguishes such claims from the impossible, yet true ones
I'm pretty curious to see how Vista is received by the general public. Will there be massive hype, will people only get it with new systems?
To anyone who's tried it: does it still (like beta 2) require a primary partition, and the "active" one at that?