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Postby NeoThermic » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:31 pm

deltantor wrote:i was one of the vista beta testers, of RC3, and it was horrid, it had some cool features but personally i will never touch vista again....


Vista never went to RC3....

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Postby deltantor » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:21 pm

NeoThermic wrote:
deltantor wrote:i was one of the vista beta testers, of RC3, and it was horrid, it had some cool features but personally i will never touch vista again....


Vista never went to RC3....

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yes it did, it was a 12 hour beta before vista was finally released, to help clean out the remaining bugs, a NDA pretty much keeps me from saying anything else, sorry
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Postby alphager » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:26 pm

I call bullshit on deltantor.
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Postby RabidZombie » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:17 am

deltantor wrote:
NeoThermic wrote:
deltantor wrote:i was one of the vista beta testers, of RC3, and it was horrid, it had some cool features but personally i will never touch vista again....


Vista never went to RC3....

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yes it did, it was a 12 hour beta before vista was finally released, to help clean out the remaining bugs, a NDA pretty much keeps me from saying anything else, sorry


No, there really wasn't. Unless it was a quick private build. Then it doesn't matter; you wouldn't have been in that.
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Postby deltantor » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:21 am

RabidZombie wrote:
deltantor wrote:
NeoThermic wrote:
deltantor wrote:i was one of the vista beta testers, of RC3, and it was horrid, it had some cool features but personally i will never touch vista again....


Vista never went to RC3....

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yes it did, it was a 12 hour beta before vista was finally released, to help clean out the remaining bugs, a NDA pretty much keeps me from saying anything else, sorry


No, there really wasn't. Unless it was a quick private build. Then it doesn't matter; you wouldn't have been in that.


how would you know what i would be in? If it wasn't for a NDA i would explain it to you, but ive already been emailed by someone here to shut up.
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Postby RabidZombie » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:27 am

Hunch :roll:
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Postby NeoThermic » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:49 am

deltantor wrote:
RabidZombie wrote:
deltantor wrote:
NeoThermic wrote:
deltantor wrote:i was one of the vista beta testers, of RC3, and it was horrid, it had some cool features but personally i will never touch vista again....


Vista never went to RC3....

NeoThermic


yes it did, it was a 12 hour beta before vista was finally released, to help clean out the remaining bugs, a NDA pretty much keeps me from saying anything else, sorry


No, there really wasn't. Unless it was a quick private build. Then it doesn't matter; you wouldn't have been in that.


how would you know what i would be in? If it wasn't for a NDA i would explain it to you, but ive already been emailed by someone here to shut up.


Handy that, when someone proves you wrong, you get an e-mail to shut up. Anyway, MS NDA's are not self-covering, so if you really did sign an NDA, you're legally able to post a copy of the NDA for us to read. Else I'll still assert that Vista did not go to RC3. The last OS from MS that hit RC3 was 2k, which went as far as RC4 before RTM.

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Postby deltantor » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:53 am

RabidZombie wrote:Hunch :roll:


heheh, ill try not to get overly offensive :P. Microsoft wanted a teenager's view on how good vista is, although I'm not your average teenager....they had 3 or 4 teenagers i know of, me, and other people try it out during a 12 hour test....all i got out of it though was some microsoft points, that i spent on the first 2 seasons of Babylon 5 for my 360...

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Postby NeoThermic » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:22 am

deltantor wrote:
RabidZombie wrote:Hunch :roll:


heheh, ill try not to get overly offensive :P. Microsoft wanted a teenager's view on how good vista is, although I'm not your average teenager....they had 3 or 4 teenagers i know of, me, and other people try it out during a 12 hour test....all i got out of it though was some microsoft points, that i spent on the first 2 seasons of Babylon 5 for my 360...


See, now the story is changing. QA and usability testing would be done during beta at latest, assuming that you don't black/grey/whitebox it while development (which would be silly and I know MS does black/white/grey box testing). This in no way would translate or nessecitate an RC3. If you were hired by MS for UA testing, then you would of done so way before Vista was even fully named.

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Postby deltantor » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:33 am

NeoThermic wrote:
deltantor wrote:
RabidZombie wrote:Hunch :roll:


heheh, ill try not to get overly offensive :P. Microsoft wanted a teenager's view on how good vista is, although I'm not your average teenager....they had 3 or 4 teenagers i know of, me, and other people try it out during a 12 hour test....all i got out of it though was some microsoft points, that i spent on the first 2 seasons of Babylon 5 for my 360...


See, now the story is changing. QA and usability testing would be done during beta at latest, assuming that you don't black/grey/whitebox it while development (which would be silly and I know MS does black/white/grey box testing). This in no way would translate or nessecitate an RC3. If you were hired by MS for UA testing, then you would of done so way before Vista was even fully named.

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hey, microsoft is weird....and in all reality i shouldnt of said RC3, wouldve been more accurate saying the "final" version....sorry for that mistake >_>
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Postby BrianBlessed » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:40 am

What confuses me more is why you assume he was lying, it's not as if testing Vista is in of itself amazing, I mean if you are going to lie say you tested a Bugatti Veron or an infrared boat or something...
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Postby deltantor » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:06 am

BrianBlessed wrote:What confuses me more is why you assume he was lying, it's not as if testing Vista is in of itself amazing, I mean if you are going to lie say you tested a Bugatti Veron or an infrared boat or something...


anyways, thanks, i guess. all the testing really was was me sitting there just doing basic tasks, trying to use a few different vid cards out of my old collection (btw, a Voodoo2 in SLI does NOT like vista, in any way whatsoever.) and a few sound cards (Adlib Gold anyone?)
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Postby NeoThermic » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:20 am

BrianBlessed wrote:What confuses me more is why you assume he was lying, it's not as if testing Vista is in of itself amazing, I mean if you are going to lie say you tested a Bugatti Veron or an infrared boat or something...


I got twigged on the whole 'RC3' bit. It's like saying I tested a real lightsaber or teleportation machine.

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Postby Shwart!! » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:23 am

Huh? I did. Does that make me a liar?

Also, its nice that you were selected for a nice little test of Vista. IYO, is it worth getting?

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Postby BrianBlessed » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:38 pm

NeoThermic wrote:I got twigged on the whole 'RC3' bit. It's like saying I tested a real lightsaber or teleportation machine.

Well it's nothing like that really, because a lightsaber and a teleporter would breach and go beyond what is currently known by physics (unless by lightsaber you mean laser pen and by teleportation machine you mean the scientists which teleported one atom). Whereas RC3 is just unusual protocol for Microsoft.

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