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Live with Vista Beta 1 - Part 1

Being a brave and fearless geek I am, I have Windows Vista Beta 1 installed on my working machine. I tried to see if every thing I do daily could operate properly, and the following are my founding:

- Sometime the DVD Recorder on my DELL desktop gets a little bit shaky. I kind of blame the DVD Recorder itself though.

- VMWare Workstation 5.0 cannot be installed on Vista Beta 1. However, VMWare Workstation 4.5.2 (at least build 8848) works pretty fine as long as I set the vmware exe to Windows XP compatible mode.

- Splash ID cannot be run even when I set the compatiblty Mode.

- The IE 7.0 now support tab browsing! In fact, when I use IM 7.0, it really feels like I am using Firefox. Funky.

- Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 works as expected. Nothing special.

- Alcohol 120 works OK to a point. During installation there's a file or two that cannot be "registered", and then when running the application I found that some dragand drop and some delete does not work as expected, but at least the core funciton is working. I am still able to mount drive image.

posted by Deecay @ 2:49 PM