New Vista coming out 21st February

[sud0n1m]

It looks like the work to get vista to boot has slowed to a crawl. Well, there is a new version coming out on the 21st of February. A lot of people are thinking that this will solve at least some of the problems with booting the CD since this new release is supposed to have better EFI support. I cant wait to see the progress.

I wonder if Microsoft has a few iMacs that they are testing builds of Vista on internally. I still think it would be in their interest to "unofficially" make Vista support the Mac platform.

[Steve1496]

This is great news, is this Beta 2?

[Dave_C]

This is great news, is this Beta 2?

No, Microsoft aren't going to be releasing a Beta 2. Instead there will be periodical CTP (Community Technology Previews) releases. These CTP's will have different feature sets and be targetted at different groups of testers, i.e. OEM's, enterprise clients etc.

[Steve1496]

Delayed until Wednesday (tomorrow)...


http://www.betanews.com/article/Vista_February_CTP_Due_Wednesday/1140548193

[Rayne]

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk...
Hasn't anyone thought to install vista in one of those EFI gatway PCs? Afterwards, one could use some live distro of linux to copy the partition onto an external hard drive. Then, use apple to "bless" the drive(make it bootable). Restart and hold down the option(alt) key and select Vista as the boot drive... The macs cannot boot from the Vista DVD; however there is no problem booting from a HD.

[mitchwilson]

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk...
Hasn't anyone thought to install vista in one of those EFI gatway PCs? Afterwards, one could use some live distro of linux to copy the partition onto an external hard drive. Then, use apple to "bless" the drive(make it bootable). Restart and hold down the option(alt) key and select Vista as the boot drive... The macs cannot boot from the Vista DVD; however there is no problem booting from a HD.

That's smart. But I didn't think anyone was making EFI PC's yet due to lack of support from XP.