eejit Posted November 15, 2006 Author Posted November 15, 2006 I agree webman; you get the champagne, I'll grab the glasses.
eejit Posted November 15, 2006 Author Posted November 15, 2006 They have, but they've been reluctant to roll it out to a couple of IT Rooms for testing.
NetworkGeezer Posted November 20, 2006 Posted November 20, 2006 It's also now availible for MSDN and Technet Subscribers too. Geeks start your browsers
Simcfc73 Posted November 20, 2006 Posted November 20, 2006 I downloaded the images last week and updated my home PC over the weekend. It took quite a while as I was doing an upgrade (god I hate upgrading) and I need to delete a few programs including daemon tools and nero but it eventually went on. After the install I had to reinstall AVG and AVG spyware and zonealarm doesn't work but everything else seems to be okay, oh except google toolbar which throws up errors all the time when you close IE7 browser. Nice things I've found thats good. Aero desktop is very nice, the switch between windows taskbar icon is good, the sidebar is okay (memory hog though) and the whole design looks alot slicker than XP. Some of the group policy settings look useful. The Windows firewall and advanced setting is an easier way to use Ipsec looks interesting. I seem to have lots of different langauges available in the classic ADM too for some reason. Love the thumbnails when you select mouse over an miminised windows. Seems very user friendly. Things I ain't keen on. Resource hog. My games hate it. I got it to crash twice within 6 hours which is better than most Microsoft Os's prior to SP1. The new all programs menu which lives in a box, pain in the arse when you have more than 20 items, and its slow. Defrag is harder to find although you can schedule it. No quick user switching, although thats cos of the version I installed. Help and Support gives me IE7 errors so I don't have any help available. Can't see me putting it anywhere near my school for a few years, especially as the start menu redirector doesn't work. Still like it though.
Dos_Box Posted November 20, 2006 Posted November 20, 2006 I don't think I shall bother for the time being as it dosen't do anything that XP is not currently doing coupled with the fact that half of my admin tools would not work.
john Posted November 20, 2006 Posted November 20, 2006 I have put Ultimate RTM on my machine at home (As a MS Tester of it I got a full retail copy of Ultimate edition as a gift), I am highly impressed with it. I love the thumbnails, Aero, Flip 3D, Side bar, I find it uses less memory than XP, runs quicker and smoother, and in general seems more polished in a way than XP, even though that is well done.
Gatt Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 Downloaded the business edition last night - gonnna try it on a test pc at the school before it goes near my home pc's Suspect a lot of stuff wont work (Nero, Daemon Tools, Mcafee AV...
eejit Posted November 21, 2006 Author Posted November 21, 2006 Nero works fine for me, can't comment about the other two items. Booting to desktop is generally 45 seconds quicker on my test machine.
Jake Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 Loving it so far, although my Nvidia based cards dont play games properly without heavy artifacting and corruption. However my ATI card based machines are running my games perfectly, put it down to crappy Nvidia drivers
pooley Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 Love the gui Hate the fact that my wireless connection drops out if I try and download or transfer large files between pc's. If they fix that I will buy it.
StewartKnight Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 What I'd like to know is, where have you got the keys from? Can someone PM me please!
Gatt Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 Keys available from Technet Subscriptions or from your schools Volume License Downloaded the DVD ISO last night from MVLS - well the .img file - converted it to an ISO with WinISO then burnt to DVD with Nero - but now it wwont open up!! Boot from DVD gives "cannot find BootMgr" error and if put into windows it just gives me a readme.txt file about UDF format. What did I do wrong?
Simcfc73 Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 Mine didn't ask for a key, used the business version. I burnt my image by mounting the IMG file in Deamon tools and doing a copy DVD with Nero, worked fine.
mrforgetful Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 You got it from Microsoft and not a dodgy source that is always, ultimately, more reliable?
StewartKnight Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 I've found that it doesn't ask for a key, but you only have 30 days to activate it. My VLK licence renewal is still being processed (Ran out on the 1st November would you believe!!!) I'm tempted to put it on my computer and hope that the licence renewal come through in the next 30 day... but can I risk it! I thought that the licences weren't available until the 30th of November anyway???
Simcfc73 Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 When I look on the Microsoft Licensing Site it doesn't list a key so I guess its not out yet. So happy I found this site as it saves me a few quid a year ordering discs. Got the new Encarta download over the weekend as well as the two versions of Vista. My ISP hates me though as they throttled me when I exceeded 20Gb.
StewartKnight Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 it took me longer on the phone that it did to download Vista, mut I managed to get a key!
eejit Posted November 21, 2006 Author Posted November 21, 2006 Who did you get the key from Stewart? Ramesys or MS or someone else?
ThatBoringBloke Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 You guys should also be aware that there are two types of Key for Vista. A KMS key - which you need a centralised server to authorise on the LAN and also a MAK key wich works very simillar to the old type of activation.
john Posted November 21, 2006 Posted November 21, 2006 Yeah, most people for testing will need to use a MAK key unless they are going to have 25 machines all plugged in at once for testing purposes.
Gatt Posted November 22, 2006 Posted November 22, 2006 Yeah I've gone for a MAK Key - though is the 100 activation liimit a restriction on the number of different PCs i can install on or a limit of how often i can re-activate on the same PC? I'm guessing its the former - allowing the user to re-install Vista onto the same PC as often as they want but are limited to 100 PC's
Geoff Posted November 22, 2006 Posted November 22, 2006 How does the KMS centralized server work? And what sort of server do you need to run it?
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