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Want Vista? Here’s how to get it and what to watch for
Friday, June 9th, 2006
Getting your hands on Beta 2 of Microsoft Corp.’s upcoming Windows Vista operating system will prove to be an exercise in "hurry up and wait" for most users. After zipping through the required sign-up process for Microsoft’s Customer Preview Program, users with a 1.5Mbit/sec. Digital Subscriber Line or cable broadband connection will likely spend 10 hours downloading the 4GB Vista installation file, Microsoft warned today on its Vista download site.
Users with a faster 3Mbit/sec. broadband connection might be able to slash that download time by half. But for most users, downloading the file will prove to be at least an overnight exercise.
The installation software, called an ISO file, must then be burned onto a blank DVD. Most DVD-burning software should recognize the ISO file and burn it correctly. Want Vista? Here’s how to get it — and what to watch for
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