Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

TechNet Archive — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:02:16 GMT

Hey Alaska: you should automatically receive an email prompting you to go to the registration site to request the RC1 DVD, but if not, you can always go to the link on my RC1 post to request the DVD.

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

TechNet Archive — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:01:00 GMT

Hey ae6dx: you shoud have gotten an email about the RC1 DVD by now, but if not, you can always go to the link on my RC1 post to either download it or request the DVD.

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

Alaska — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:05:01 GMT

Let me better explain myself to nwithe. I paid and order the DVD for Beta 2. It said in the box it came, that I will get a copy of RC1 when it became available.
Question to Mr. White, when are they going to ship the rc1 DVD to folks like us that already paid for Beta 2 ?
I love to hear that it is in the mail, that way I could be playing with RC1 this weekend.

Thank you Microsoft anyway......

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

hklm — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:51:18 GMT

You don't get it Nick. There is no such thing as Office 2007 that is not RC1 compatible. How and why that misleading info got on the site is pathognomonic of some of the Vista dissaray as you all rush to put a half finished product out so you can exchange it for your customers' money.

Office 2007 works fine with Office. The Upgrade Advisor tries to cow and intimidate people into buying OEM hardware they don't need so that MSFT can sell more OEM preinstalled Vistas that won't allow them to repair Vista.

Why is it that when you get feedback from people who know Windows and care enough to test what you want tried, the arrogance in the water on the Redmond campus compells you to ignore the feedback and push ahead anyway.

Is there a problem with the English that conveys to you that you are telling people that Office 2007 needs an update to work with RC1 and that's false. Have you actually tried Office RC1 on your daily builds and found it won't work. I'm offering to provide tech support to you and whomever is posting that on the Vista website so that you can get it working.

Also why do you proffer an Upgrade Advisor that tells people a panoply of hardware won't work in Vista when in fact it works like a charm if not to try to take advantage of their gullibiilty and intimidate them into buying new OEM boxes that they might not need?

HKLM

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

bigfatlexusman — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:51:53 GMT

What can one do if they registerd for and downloaded beta 2 but never installed it and like a dummy accidently deleted the key, can one be resent to the individual or will I have to wait until released to the public

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

TechNet Archive — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:50:17 GMT

Hey everyone: as I've stated before, the CPP is *not yet* available for public consumption, but will be shortly, so keep an eye on this blog for news of it.

As far as the RC1-compatible version of Office, that will be available *very soon*, so keep checking their site.

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

TechNet Archive — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:10:35 GMT

Please do not post product keys on this blog or any other public site or forum.

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

Golden — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:58:36 GMT

Is there a problem with the RC1 Install? I downloaded the ISO and made a DVD. I Attempted to install RC1 in VirtualPC 2004 SP1. Just after entering the Product Code, I get the following error: “Windows can not open the required file D:\Sources\Install.wim. The file may be corrupt or missing.” What do I do now?

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

hklm — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:38:06 GMT

I meant to include the link Nick.

The link is:

Get Ready: Windows Vista Customer Preview Program

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Where in the world and from whom did this fiction come from posted on the MSFT Get Vista RC1 site?

"2007 Office System Beta 2 compatibility
If you are using 2007 Office system Beta 2 be sure to download the 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 Technical Refresh, the most recent update. (The Technical Refresh is required to use Office Beta 2 with Windows Vista RC1.)"

Are there individuals on the Vista teams who believe this or on the Office teams are both?

Also the link to the Office web site for obtaining the Beta 2 Tech refresh does not have it on the site.

HKLM

re: Clarification on Availability of the Windows Vista RC1 Customer Preview Program

hklm — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:31:22 GMT

I was wondering about these 2 strange phemonswith incorrect statements promulgated by MSFT on their "get Vista RC1" site.

If you click the link for the CPP you see this concerning Office 2007 and RC1 and both statments are flat wrong:

The first on compatibility alleges that on Vista RC1 Office will only run if you have the Beta 2 TR (Technical Refresh). That's simply ridiculous. Office runs fine on every Beta build of Vista since it hit the delivery room.

This is confusing a lot of people we have to help on the groups Nick, and if you noticed, I've never seen so much problem for some of these people simply burning a CD and running setup in the history of MSFT.

This is patently false information on the MSFT site.

1) 2007 Office System Beta 2 compatibility
If you are using 2007 Office system Beta 2 be sure to download the 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 Technical Refresh, the most recent update. (The Technical Refresh is required to use Office Beta 2 with Windows Vista RC1.)

2) The link which MSFT gives people with the expectation of downloading the Office Beta 2 refresh which they don't need for running Office 2007 on RC1 or any other build of Vista past and future, is a blind alley. Nothing like the Beta 2 refresh is up. This is one of many MSFT broken tailights where one individual on the Redmond campus either didn't communicate with others or at times gets ticked and puts something up to vex their collegues and MSFT customers.

Can you get this fixed Nick? And please tell Office not to promulgate Vista fiction. There is enough intimidation from your campus over false hardware mandates from the Vista Upgrade advisor. I have multiple screenshots on boxes where it has told people they need xyz to run Vista and that's just fiction. I can only conclude you all are doing it to intimidate gullible customers into buying OEM hardware because Scott di Valario your accountant OEM VP (no IT in his background at all) got a 20% increase in sales of OEM last quarter and there was a 20% decrease in retail sales. MSFT wants to stimulate OEM sales by intimidating customers into needing hardwware they don't need.

When I run the upgrade advisor, it says I need a new IDE controller FALSE, that I need a new VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 controller FALSE and that I need a new sound card FALSE.

Althoug Vista badly needs every bit of 6 months of work that the Steve Sinofsky run the trains on time ethos even when they are way off the track won't give it, and because you all are afraid of making any more licensing revisions, I can run boxes very well and very fast with hardware your upgrade advisor says will not work.

We're not even talking optimal running here. I'm running it with optimal speed and stability. We're talking pure fiction promulgated by the Upgrade Advisor. I'd love to show it to the PMs and team that birthed that puppy, if only you would tell me how to reach them and what non-intuitive team name they are going by.

They should stop trying to fool the public with ficitional hardware requirements and you can't proffer cognitive dissonance that they mean "optimal". It won't fly.

Please let us know if you can get this misleading info corrected.

Thanks,

HKLM