Comments on: Microsoft Open Review: Vista — Download Link

By: Masked UID

Masked UID — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:34:21 +0000

Where do you get your data for statement

“Microsoft Vista requires a minimum of 55 gigabytes on the
hard disk to operate at all”

in http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B4B3F8713%2DB36B%2D44F0%2D8043%2DF008FED97FC1%7D&source=blq%2Fyhoo&dist=yhoo&siteid=yhoo?

I just installed on a 36GB SCSI drive & “Properties” for that drive shows me 6.02GB used. It boots & runs fine.

By: Johnny-Cakes

Johnny-Cakes — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:11:38 +0000

Took me just under 50 minutes to install it on my system, which was using the upgrade option from XP and not a clean install.

By: Mike Drips

Mike Drips — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:26:39 +0000

With the overloaded Microsoft servers, even on broadband cable, it took me four hours to download the Windows Vista beta.
However it took FIVE hours to install it!

By: AC

AC — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:58:32 +0000

WARNING!

I tried to download it from M$ yeterday morning – no luck – server overload and I gave up

Same thing early afternoon

Late Afternoon, tried it a third time and was told that I had maximized out the number of certificates and could not proceed to download

I had copied down the numbers and saved the page, but how many people would have?

Guess I gotta go make a new hotmail name

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:21:46 +0000

It came down for me last night from the MS site – a note of caution though. Even though I have a 64-bit processor I downloaded the 32-bit version because driver support is extremely ropey under 64-bit Vista at the moment, e.g if you have a creative soundcard forgetaboutit

By: Johnny-Cakes

Johnny-Cakes — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:30:53 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t even know about isohunt until it was recently advertised by the MPAA and RIAA. Pretty neat site!

They’ve done so much to get people interested in downloading this kind of stuff….they’re doing a great service to file sharing in general. Keep up the great work!

By: KB

KB — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:10:31 +0000

I checked to see what they would charge to snail-mail it to me on DVD, and they want SIX DOLLARS!!!

Please stop laughing, folks. It’s a great deal, really.

snicker snicker

By: bob wilson

bob wilson — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:49:21 +0000

i’m running 83 seeds / 217 peers off isohunt, 78% done with 38 minutes to go. not bad at all.

this is what bittorrent was built for.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:20:36 +0000

#1
There are torrents floating around already. And, since one still needs to register to get a license key (free, by the way), it seems that BitTorrent would be a wonderful solution.

By: ziggy

ziggy — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:19:14 +0000

they posted mac os x for download?

By: bubba dvorak/blog

bubba dvorak/blog — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:20:14 +0000

this is a good case for ….bittorrent. what ever happened to that hurricane or whatever it was that MS was creating?

I’ve used isohunt for something legal….gosh…why does that make sense?