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A look inside Windows Vista
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
During the last week of August, I downloaded the pre-RC1 build of Windows Vista and discovered 
that Microsoft’s developers had been very busy since the last build.
While Microsoft had stated earlier in the month that there wouldn’t be any interim releases prior to the much regaled RC1 release, I now see the wisdom of the decision of a pre-RC1 build.
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Now, don’t get me wrong, 5536 is indeed a great build. However, I see that they’ve made so many improvements, both on the surface and under the hood, that they wanted to give the hard core testers an opportunity to put this version of the operating system through the ringer before they slap the official RC1 moniker on the DVD and send it out to millions of users all over the world.
An improved installation experience
Once I downloaded the ISO image and burned it into a DVD, I put the disk into my Windows Vista test system and let Setup do its thing. Installation was a fairly quick procedure compared to some of the earlier builds. In fact, it took about 55 minutes from start to finish to perform a clean install, along with saving data files from the previous installation, on my system. However, I’ve heard other testers boast turnaround times of 15 to 20 minutes, which I suppose is possible on beefier systems and without the added time required for saving data. A look inside Windows Vista - Builder - ZDNet Asia
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