Microsoft Announces Windows Vista Beta 2
By: Arie Slob
Yesterday, May 23rd, at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2006, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced the immediate availability of Windows Vista™ Beta 2, together with the Beta 2 versions of 2007 Microsoft® Office system and the next version of Windows Server™, code-named Windows Server "Longhorn." It is the first time that Microsoft has simultaneously released the test versions of all three of the company's flagship products.
"The release of these three betas is a significant milestone for Microsoft and a major step toward delivering the platforms that will drive the next decade of computing," Gates said. "The combination of these innovative platform technologies and the new hardware and software being developed by our partners will make PCs and other devices more powerful, more useful and more intelligent for businesses today and into the future."
Windows Vista Beta 2 and Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 2 are available now to developers and IT professionals with MSDN® and TechNet subscriptions, as well as to members of the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and the TechBeta program. In coming weeks, Microsoft will start the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) to allow developers and IT professionals who are not a part of those programs to obtain the code and begin their own testing. Also as part of the CPP, Microsoft will invite a broader group of technology enthusiasts to receive a build of the operating system to begin testing the various consumer scenarios that Windows Vista enables.
I'm currently working on a review of Windows Vista Beta 2, check out the HelpWithWindows.com site for details.
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