Enough, apparently, that some users have reported overloaded sites that never begin the download. (As of mid-day Thursday, TechWeb was unable to reach the English-language, 32-bit download file.) That ...

The Redmondians at Microsoft have finally opened the sluicegates on Beta 2 of their oft-delayed Windows Vista operating system, and your intrepid reporting team at Gizmodo jumped all over it, trying ...

Ian Moulster, a .Net product manager based in the U.K., blogged that the take-up on the free-of-charge beta had been "incredible," and that with the company's self-imposed download and mail-delivered ...

In our testing of Microsoft‘s recently released Vista Beta 2 code, we found that in terms of its revamped client-side networking infrastructure and policy-based security controls, it’s in lock step ...

Ars has a great in-depth piece on Vista Beta 2. We still haven’t got our copy—nor are we holding our breath—but it’s clearly an important look at an OS that, for better or worse, will soon be taking ...

In June, Microsoft released the first publicly available test version of the next generation of Windows to a less-than-enthusiastic reception. Actually, that's putting it mildly. Most testers were ...