The Microsoft JOKE!

First, they send laptops to bribe bloggers loaded with Vista. After that PR disaster, now, they want the laptops back saying they are for review only !

The first ever Microsoft Vista commercial!

Hmm ... If you thought Apple ads suck .. what do you call these ?

Windows Vista Wallpapers

Brajeshwar has collected the set of wallpapers apparently made for Vista.

Get them

What Vista should have been in 2003

Source: Digg/anog

Understanding Vista Licensing

DownloadSquad has an article on Microsoft Windows Vista licensing issues and how ugly and geek unfriendly the restrictions in the EULA

Microsoft forbids you from transferring the OS to another machine more than once

If you've built your own machine and plan on upgrading your motherboard regularly, prepare to shell out for a new copy of Vista the second time you do.

Microsoft has forbidden installing Vista Home or Vista Home Premium on a virtual machine like VMware or Parallels. If you want to do that you'll have to pay for Windows Vista Business or Ultimate, which will retail for $299 and $399, respectively

Vista's license spells out its right to "phone home" to Microsoft and require validation whenever it feels like it, and the ramifications if validation fails for any reason: "The software will from time to time validate the software, update or require download of the validation feature of the software. If after a validation check, the software is found not to be properly licensed, the functionality of the software may be affected."

Via DownloadSquad

Windows Vista RC2 Review

Information Week has come out with review of Vista RC2. Apparently, if you don't activate, Vista will stop working.

If you don't want to read the full review - here is the conclusion!

Performance-wise, RC2 looks and feels good and marks a continued progression from RC1. (I had only one unexplained reboot!)

The bottom line is that, with RC2, Vista is increasingly looking like a smart combination of heavy duty functionality sure to be welcomed by corporate users and an increasingly good-looking presentation that'll appeal to consumers.