Vista SP1 RC1 is up on MSDN, from several reports...

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It's supposed to be available as a public beta candidate either today or Friday, so I guess we'll see what happens.

Report your luck with it if you're an MSDN member and care to give it a go.

Kids, please, don't turn this into a fuckin' battlefield of OS Wars, try to keep it civil and discuss relevant information with respect to Vista Service Pack 1's release candidate.

Estimated size is about 1.1GB as a single ISO (expected that size as the network install version). Filename is:

mu_windows_vista_service_pack_1_rc_x86_x64_en_de_ja_fr_es_dvd.iso

Guess they're going with the single pack multi-language edition with this one, since they're trying to finally have Vista support across the entire language "pool" they offer. And it's the 32 bit and 64 bit installer in one... interesting.
 
I already downloaded it a while ago, runs great. Had a few BSOD because of conflicts with my graphics drivers (169.09), but that was resolved with 169.12. Snappy, but then again that could just be me.
 
Just out of curiosity did you use signed drivers when the conflict happened?
 
My networking performanced improved by some 3x. cool.

I knew when MS said there was nothing wrong with Vista Networking that they were full of crap. Nothing could perform that poorly and be working properly!
 
I am trying to locate it but not having any luck. Is there a direct url for the MSDN link?
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
Well? Is Vista twice as slow as XP now? :p
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No, I would say a tad slower then XP (almost unnoticeable on new hardware). Then again I don't have SP3 and from what I've heard from a friend who is using it, SP3 can actually slow older machines down (donno why).
 
I want to dl it but after testing the beta, I'll wait until the official release comes out.

The beta had an activation bug which locked me out and the activation system was broken. I ended up having to reinstall. Good thing I only tried it on my laptop though.
 
Here are somethings to note if you are thinking of trying SP1 RC1. I had problems with the BETA as well, but that didn't stop me from trying RC1. True I suffered from BSOD, but once I figured out what the problem was Vista worked like it should of from the very beginning. I'm playing games in Vista something I thought I really wouldn't be doing reliably for at least this next hardware generation with performance comparable to Windows XP SP2. Problems were related to graphics drivers 169.09 and Aero, 169.13 fixed them. Other people are still reporting problems with older hardware though.

On a personal side note, I'm open to flaming here:

Also note, a lot of the younger folks here maybe looking at Windows XP with reference, but I remember how XP was released before there were systems in house holds that could truly handle it, how people bitched about no more DOS support and how they were going to hold off until a Second Edition like with Windows 98. My personal view is that XP was just as hated of an OS as Vista is now, but the internet wasn't as mature as it is now to spread that animosity. I was weened on a system to slow to use Windows 3.1 and learned to live with DOS and have been around in one way or another through the following OS. I feel this is a time when PC users should stick together and no break apart about the issue of the better OS, we are switching to Vista one way or another. All this is doing is making Mac users look like the more harmonious bunch and the last thing I would like to see is what happened to the Mac market in the late 90's happen to the PC market now. It always to MS a year to get it right and it always will, this is what you get for having such a varied medium as the PC versus some socialist controlled Mac. This is about democracy versus the evils of socialism and global health care :p I could imagine a world controlled by Macs, it would make DRM look like a nerf ball compared to a baseball.

I really couldn't help myself :D
 
No Ranger this time it's different. Win98 that was the mainstream alternative at the time (skipping the ME fiasco) was inherently unstable and generally a nightmare to upkeep.

XP brought serious improvements in stability and functionality and continues to offer a stable reliable platform even today.

Where XP offered a notable advancement in technology, Vista doesn't. It's a GUI fix which will in reality only confuse people used to XP. Sure the code changed but that's another problem. The changes in driver base mean that the system will reject older hardware or be unstable. This is a clear step backwards.

Vista features like superfetch are just useless gimmicks - like it would matter if your app will load 3 seconds faster when you're going to get a performance hit for the next 8 hours you'll be USING it..

So all in all, the net effect of migrating to Vista is purely negative. The GUI annoyance partly remains even after you disable Aero and other marketing 'improvements' and the dreadful UAC. To make things even worse disabling UAC needs a reboot - something you wouldn't want to start doing when you're working in remote desktop support.
 
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