RSSVista RTM Build 6000 Leaked to Usenet
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published November 13, 2006, 4:56 PM
BetaNews has confirmed that a build of Windows Vista giving clear indications that it is the final release-to-manufacturing version of the operating system, appeared in .ISO form on a Usenet binaries newsgroup over the weekend, appeasing the interests of folks who can't wait just a few more days.
However, since the final release of Vista requires online activation, and no such beast exists prior to the product's launch, one can basically think of this leaked DVD image as a 60-day trial version. A crack program was supplied with the image, presumably to retrofit the OS with the "time bomb" from Vista Beta 2, which locks down the system from running sometime in March.
To verify the authenticity of the build, a BetaNews tester installed it into a non-permanent VMware environment. Absent were the usual build numbers that a beta version displays in the lower right corner. The start menu icons, the tester noted, were tweaked a bit, as well as other icons throughout the system. In the computer's Properties page, the build number reads "6000."
But there are indications elsewhere of possibly multiple builds 6000 from Microsoft, in which case, this could very well not be the latest one.
Since our VMware environment does not support sound, we could not test whether the new system sounds were on-board. The new system sounds, which were previewed last week for NPR, are shorter, softer, and feature glassy, electronic instruments as opposed to the full orchestration of Windows XP.
If you buy the Ultimate version of Vista it will cost you $399.
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|some RAPIDSAHARE DOWNLOAD links are here:
http://keznews.com/1716_...86_061101-2205_DOWNLOAD
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|Wanted to make 2 things clear.
First downloading this build, and making it time-bomb in March is NOT legal.
Second, Windows Vista does NOT costs $400, it costs the same price as Windows XP Professional ( Retail, Upgrade ) for the Windows Vists Bus edition ( Retail and Uprgrade ).
You cannot compare Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. If TheInquirer is indeed using a leaked copy, shame on them, they should be closed down for stealing.
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|It's not stealing. The software is designed to give an experience for free for one month.
Vista is now public domain, even though Microsoft may not like it being available.
Put the two together... means you can download it or obtain it and use it for the one month trial. It's very logically legal to do so.
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|"You cannot compare Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. "
why not?
they're both the best (or most) of that era of OS.
what prior OS would YOU compare Vista Ultimate to?
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|MCE would probably be closer.
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|yah, i agree.
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|betanoobs, can't even get sound in vmware, lael
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|Try it in dual boot.
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|Old news now.
I think everyone should download it as there are heaps of issues that need to be ironed out, so this should be the real Beta, even though it's release version.
As long as you trial it for 30 days then it's mostlikely very legal to use.
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|I've got the WinBeta Usenet Edition.
It seems to be the real thing. I have already ordered Home Premium, which is what I installed, so I don't feel too incredibly bad about it. ;)
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|there's a WinBeta version out too that contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions on one DVD. it works quite well too. Applied the RTM activation patch and even it it does timeout in March of 2007, most of the eliters will find corporate keys and just reactivate with a valid corporate key..just a matter of time... M$ should make the damn OS free and charge for support much like RedHat.. I for sure won't be paying $400+ for a damn OS that's not that way more advanced than XP.. Just a lot of eye candy which needs newer hardware to run on...
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|I really truly wish people would stop saying its just eye candy because its not
a new version of ie runs in a special mode to keep damage away from the core of the os
new uac that prompts user before making serious changes
usb drives can be used to speed system up
new gui
system boots faster then xp due to way the processes are handled
profiles only damage that user not the entire os
directx 10
theres many more but this has been done to death enough
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|Why should they make it free? Because you don't want to pay for it? Don't worry plenty of other people will. Making it free would be an idiotic move.
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|ummm how else are you going to pay the programmers who developed it?
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|Boy oh boy!!! I'm an eliter!!!
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|Ahead Software offers a discounted Nero 7 Ultra Edition package, to existing customers who bought their last 6 series program. I suppose Microsoft could offer Vista at a discount, for current owners of the Windows XP RTM, which originally sold for $299.00 US dollars in 2002.
I am happy with both my Nero 6 software and Windows XP. Vista just didn't turm me on. I will BOYCOTT this $400.00 software, after hearing that Microsoft wants more cheap foreign immigrant labor, which means more unemployed Americans in Silicon Valley. Piracy isn't the only way that you can send the message to those greedy capitalist pigs...
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|There is no easy getting around the activation like a lot of people did by using a corp\ent key.
There has been A LOT of work on making sure that as many usage scenarios have been covered including business users whereby if the machine cannot authenticate it's activation occasionally it will lock itself down.
Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com...svista/plan/volact.mspx which explains the options.
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|..And TheInquirer, have bagged a dodgy copy and are reviewing it...
http://www.theinquirer.n...ault.aspx?article=35700
They claim to have got it from MSDN, but it's not been posted there, so they are obviously telling porkies aboout their source.. You can assume they are therefore reviewing the Vista build 6000 Usenet Edition.... Very credible...
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|Yeah, it's not on MSDN yet, but Office 2007 is. Not surprised about it leaking at all though.
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|Maybe MSDN UK?
lol...
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|I knew it'd happen sometime--I'm surprised it didn't happen last week!
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|I've been stuck on %99.7 on THREE different torrents for the past 2 days now! I am starting to feel that this whole Vista RTM thing is just a conspiracy, or is it?
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|The BillGates release is genuine, as is the Winbeta x86/x64 AIO. Sounds like you were downloading a dummy release.
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|this is correct ....
the "winbeta" does work ....
not so sure about the "dvd build" but the AIO
installed fine
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