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8 Versions of Vista, Premature

Feb 21, 2006 3:38PM PST

According to Engadget Microsoft announcing 8 versions of Microsoft Windows was pre-mature and all references have been removed. Check out the article here.

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Beta Testing
Feb 21, 2006 10:23PM PST

Been testing Vista out for months now cause at work here we have the full MSDN. I know they have several flavours in the works, more so then XP.

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You're having better luck than me
Feb 21, 2006 10:59PM PST

I have a Dell (not my personal .. it's a work one) Latitude C610, and have not been able to get any version of Vista to install on it aside from the first beta. I keep getting those oh-so-meaningful error messages. Y'know, the ones that say something like:

"Setup has encountered an error. Installation cannot continue."

Yes sir, I'm REALLY impressed with Vista so far .. Wink

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Blahhh
Feb 21, 2006 11:29PM PST

Hmm, that would suck. I know each version of windows is more complicated, but they do introduce some nice features. Kind of looking forward to media centre. The latest version is full featured, just not bug free. My buddy and I here test it when we have time, it does look nice, but I am not liking where some of the security is going. He fixed a complicated issue with the ATI video driver so he gets 10 free copies, so I'm working hard on finding a good bug myself.