bball4life
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The beta will never be "updated" to the final version. You will still have to go out and buy an official Microsoft Vista cd to use it. The Beta is a Temporary trial version, if you wish to call it that.
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Apokarteron
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I got the xbox replacement cable they were giving fo free because they said the ones before 2003 caused fire hazard, I also got the free Service Pack 2 CD.
bball4life
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Ya but like the xbox replacement cable, thats a recall, big lawsuits can happen from stuff like that. I mean when they are just giving away free stuff to give it away for free. But nevermind.
Apokarteron
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I get your point
bball4life
New Member
Lol, who cares, lets just hope we get those Vista CD's, and that Vista isn't freakishly expensive and buggy when it comes out.
Apokarteron
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"fingers crossed" although I don't care much about Vista, I'm waiting for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard...
palmmann
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the problem wasn't the power cables, it was the shitty psus they put in the xboxes. ms didn't want to take back ALL of the xboxes, so they said the cable was the problem.
btw, THANKS!
bamhm182
New Member
Just a thought, but if you took it a few times would you get a few CDs? and do they come with Product Keys or will they just not work after the experation date? because if you took it ten times and they came with product keys that lasted for 1 year, you could have Vista for ten years, in theory.
bball4life
New Member
I'm sure microsoft has thought of that, and I am pretty sure they just expire on the expiration date. But you could get multiple cd's you would just have to register multiple times with different information. And I doubt there will product keys, its a free beta there is no point.
Redbull{wings}
Active Member
there are product keys but all of them will probably end around the time vista comes out
pbdr
New Member
One question, being somewhat of a noob, will anyone actually install and use this version of Vista? Is it just gonna be one big bug?
Also, when it is installed will it reformat the HDD and wipe everything? Like I said, I'm a bit of a noob and just trying to figure this all out.
Oh, and thanks for posting this regardless.
Also, when it is installed will it reformat the HDD and wipe everything? Like I said, I'm a bit of a noob and just trying to figure this all out.
Oh, and thanks for posting this regardless.
bball4life
New Member
Well most likely this isn't the full OS, and I believe with the downloadable beta it kind of ran along with XP, so no you should not have to format your hdd, and if you want to be on the safe side just back it up. Not really sure I never downloaded the beta but I though that is how it was.
I saw prices for it, and it was like $200-$800. Expensive.
No, it is the full version, almost exactly the same as it will be when released. I am running it right now as a dual-boot system.
It was 64. ACtually I got three, I make 3 .net passports and did the thing three times
I did do it all the second day the thing came out, so I was one of the earily ones.