Free Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 Test Drive
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 11.6.2008
Microsoft has started pressing the acceleration pedal of the marketing of Windows Vista, now complete with Service Pack 1.
At the debut of June, Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Windows Product Management, revealed that Vista SP1 was ready for wide business adoption, and the software giant even launched a Vista experience initiative built around the operating system plus its first service pack. Now, Microsoft is taking it one step further and is actually letting end users test drive Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 online.
"The Windows Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 (SP1) test-drive allows you to try (or "test drive") this latest operating system from Microsoft without having to install it on your PC. By simply logging onto our test drive environment using your web browser, you will be able to experience Windows Vista first hand. You can explore the product on your own, or follow along with guided exercises and videos," reads the welcome message on the Vista Ultimate SP1 Test Drive website.
A project of Microsoft Virtual Labs, the Vista Ultimate SP1 test drive is designed to emphasize four pillars of the platform: security, usability, reliability and versatility. The Redmond company has essentially put at the disposal of users a copy of 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, running on an AMD Opteron processor with 2 GB of RAM. The test operating system is available online and can be accessed through the browser. There are no downloads or installation involved in test driving Vista Ultimate SP1.
But even though it's meant to give users just a taste of what Vista Ultimate SP1 is truly capable of, the online client made available by Microsoft comes with a plethora of components from antivirus, to Application Compatibility Toolkit, the Deployment Toolkit, the Office 2007 System, SQL Server 2005, and even Windows AIK.
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Comments(6)
sounds like a desperate attempt to sell a lemon.
if the software is so brilliant -
with matching hardware- why bundle it with so much crap?
vista will be remembered as
the vain os and not for its technological advances.
kinda agree with pinguin on this one, sounds like a last ditch atempt to kick start vista
into some more homes..
saying that you can also download working copies(time
limited) of server 2k8 from the ms site so i suppose it make some sort of sense.
not going to work though....roll on win7
i have had vista since the beta and i gotta say sp1 helped big time and yet there are
still some software compatibility problems. other then that it works great.
i have tried it. using ie6/ie7 activex to simulate vista online. so complicated.
i
feel the real one (desktop) is much better. vista is a good os, but make it available
online is another case.
vista looks alot like windows me.and will end up in the same place trash compactor.
i think it's a great idea to test something before you purchase it. when vista first
arrived, i hated it, even before i actually got a taste of it. i bought my first laptop
last year for college, and i fell in love with it. i've even upgraded to ultimate. vista
basic was ok, but ultimate, i'll never use xp again. i've got another laptop and you can
bet, i'll put ultimate on that too.
do not belittle anything unless you've
experienced it first hand.
way to go microsoft!!
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By Pinguin on 12.06.2008 - 08:06