Microsoft Windows Vista: First Impression
We got our Beta 1 release of Windows Vista a few days ago. Needless to say, we were excited to see what Microsoft had in mind with its upcoming, so went straight to the DVD drive and put in the disc. Yes, the new version of Windows ships only on DVD (at least the Beta does).
The first thing you will note when you put in your Vista DVD is that the command line prompt is: ‘Press any key to boot from CD/DVD instead of just CD.’
Anyway, the installation is not the usual irritatingly questioning variety from the yesteryears. It’s simple and asks only for Product Key, EULA, Install Type (Complete, Custom, etc), the computer name and the partition you want to install on. Here, you can create/modify/delete partitions if you so choose, but since we had a new hard drive, we didn’t bother fiddling around with these options.
