Microsoft has plans of making a new Windows Vista build available to testers this week. The new build will have some significant improvements that allow Vista to use less system resources. I am definitely curious what the “system resources” refers to because it could mean less hard drive space, less ram, or many other things. They still say that you should have 512MB of RAM to run Vista smoothly.
I have tested Vista on both my laptop and my desktop but I now refuse to use it on my laptop. My 7-hour battery life in Windows XP quickly drops to less than 3-hours when using Vista. This isn’t a drawback when using my desktop but the whole point of a laptop is portability, and Vista sure lacks the ability to use its resources effectively.
The expected build number was not mentioned but recent screenshots of Vista 5466 were posted to the Web. This version became popular because it was the first set of screenshots that we saw the new non-Aero Vista theme in action. The previous build that was released to testers was 5456 so I would think that the build number would be a little higher than 5466, but I’m no expert.
I expect this release to be like the last one and only be available to Microsoft Connect subscribers. The next build that will be publicly available is Release Candidate 1 (RC1). Those people who installed and activated Beta 2 should receive RC1 at no cost when it is released.
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I really do have to say like alot of others have before me…
Who the Hell Needs Vista and Why???…
Most new computer users can barely send emails and attach their grandkids photos…
Users of a few years could care less whether there is some new and totally Cool File System, what the Hell, they’d never be able to figure it out cause they only learned how to do emails a year or so ago…
All these people want is to be able to get online and be cool and talk to their family that may live in another state or even 50-miles away and be able to find all the pics they took with that over expensive camera they bought that seemed to want to hide the photos in it’s own directory and not the place Windows said they would be…
God forbid AOL comes up with some new service that sucks all these people in, what would they do if that happened?…
hahahahaha
Keith,
You are definitely right that most people will not need to upgrade to Vista, and many people probably shouldn’t. It has taken some people many years to understand how XP works and now Vista goes and changes it all on them. It is just like how some people are going to go crazy when they are forced to use the new Office 2007 at work. It will take them forever to get use to it even though it is a little more intuitive.
-Ryan