Chris Jones - Beta 1 of Windows Vista revealed

Posted By: Charles | Jul 27th, 2005 @ 11:58 AM | 210,687 Views | 96 Comments
Today Microsoft is signing off on beta 1 of Windows Vista. There's a big party on campus and all that. Betas will soon be available for MSDN Universal, Enterprise, Professional, and Operating System Subscribers.

As usual, we (Robert Scoble and Jeff Sandquist did the interview) wanted to get the straight scoop so we went to Chris Jones, who is a corporate vice president tasked with building and shipping a high quality Windows Vista product. He tells us what's in beta 1 and what to expect at the PDC.

We had a little fun with Chris and made him put a quarter on the table everytime he said the word "Longhorn."

He explains the build process for Windows Vista and gives us a demo at about 11 minutes into the interview.
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#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 12:10 PM
DuNuNuBatman
DuNuNuBatman
Cool, when do I get to download it... or do I have to wait for the torrent Wink
#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 12:23 PM
Andre Da Costa
Andre Da Costa
Created with PhotoDraw 2000 V2
Its available to MSDN Subscribers before the Technical testers, which is quite strange.
#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 12:31 PM
Manip
Manip
AHH! The video is taking *so* long to download! COME ON!
#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 12:34 PM
Tom Servo
Tom Servo
W-hat?
Hey, Chris Jones, why's the bits not on MS Connect?
#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 12:37 PM
Chadk
Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?
Notice the 9 guy in the background! Wink

But Congratz with the beta1!
#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 12:47 PM
jphillips59
jphillips59
pretty odd, maybe there have been issues with connect?
#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 1:22 PM
Manip
Manip
Was it just me or did he just reveal there is going to be a home and a pro version?

Two things, no.1 I got from what he said that it will no longer do "dumb searching" which is a *must have* as a developer. I want to search a *.dat; a *.bmp file for strings when I do a search. It requires a frigging registry hack in XP to get it working.

Secondly did anyone else notice how long it took his files to appear after the window did?

Where, as a user, can I disable this automatic error reporting? Can I?
#Jul 27th, 2005 @ 1:43 PM
sven_kraemer
sven_kraemer
Only myself at home :D

oh this video is very very good, i just can't wait for testing it on my own!

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