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Vista 'Pre-RC1' Getting Good Blog Buzz

Testers generally have given it good marks in their first impressions. The new version (Windows Vista), called "Pre-RC1" by the Redmond, developer, immediately got the thumbs-up from several well-known Windows fan sites. "We have made a lot of progress since Beta 2 and 5472, and we think you will notice the quality improvements that we've been seeing in the daily builds," wrote Nick White, a Vista program manager, on the group's blog.

"Installation was quick, performance is great, way better than the previous one," said someone identified as "Ely" on Neowin.net's message forum. Another tester there, "cheesegoduk," said, "It installed in under an hour which is great considering I'm not even using my fast hard disk to test it on." There are many other positive comments about Windows Vista.

Windows Vista, which Microsoft continues to say will ship to businesses in November and will be available to others in January 2007, is expected to roll out as RC1 within the next few weeks. Microsoft, which closed the Beta 2 of Windows Vista about a month after it unveiled it to the public, has said it will reopen broad availability when the OS hits RC1.

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