Windows Vista

I was checking out exam info at Microsoft website when i came across some info on the new Windows Vista. I'd heard about Longhorn but Vista is new to me. MS says the beta version is out already so i'm curious if anyone has tried it out.

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evanderburg

Visa is Longhorn. Vista Beta 1 is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Here is a preview of it. http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_beta1_01.asp

Alien

Thanks for the refresh and the link proved very informative. I have been out of touch with Microsoft and didnt realise Vista is Longhorn (Silly me). It looks like a pimped up version of XP or 2003. I assume this Microsoft are going to update their certs soon and discontinue some. I hope the MCSE 2000 track is not targeted for discontinuation.

JDMurray

Alien wrote:

I hope the MCSE 2000 track is not targeted for discontinuation.

Every exam and certification track has a target date for expiration, but none are currently advertised for Windows 2000 MCSE.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcse/requirements.asp

They'll probably start talking about phasing it out once Vista has been successfully adopted by MS users for a couple of years.

darkmagic

Good & informative link there "evanderburg"

keatron

Yeah, Vista came in my September shipment from Technet. I have it on a laptop. So far, so good. Cool interface (you get the same feeling you got when going from 2000 to XP in that regard).

I'll post more as I delve into it.

Webmaster

On a side note, here's a link to a site with screenshot of many current an older operating systems:

www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots

evanderburg

That site was a nice walk down memory lane. Thanks!

JDMurray

That is a great site! I remember when Amiga Workbench 2.0 looked so new. And those colors on Windows 1.0 remind me of when I used to run it back in the mid-eighties on the very first clone PC I ever bought. I thought that it looked very modern European, actually. I never did much with Windows until Windows 386 was released, but it was still interesting to play with. It took Windows 95 for me to finally stop using Norton Commander.

mobri09

excellent website www.guidebookgallery.com! Thank you

paige1

That site was a nice walk down memory lane. Thanks!

Speaking of memory lane, I can remember around the time Win 3.1 and DOS were popular. Software Manufacturers had to make 2 versions of everything they made. One for Windows and one for DOS!

(DOS was the Disk Operating System, and nobody really knew what to call Windows)