Q: just an email from Microsoft . a licensed copy of Vista Ultimate will be shipped in February as thanks for participating.
Hopefully older video drivers will then be available. Or at least in 2008 when the next round of great video game is released.
Best Answer: I installed it on my friends computer (because my computer wouldn't handle it) and got bored with it after an hour.
It reminds me a lot of Mac OS X. Vista and OS X both have an instant search, both now have "widgets", and it seems Vista is trying to copy OS X's interface.
The only thing I like was how they combined Windows Media Edition Center in with Vista… That's about the only thing helpful with the public wanting to use their computer as entertainment center.
The thing I noticed (and is going to make people mad) is trying to use what was Outlook Express on Vista. Anyone who doesn't know what they are doing and trying to set up the POP3 and all that information to get their e-mails, will likely not use that program. (For the life of me, I can't remember what the e-mail program is now called.)
I own/run XP, but I have messed around with a Mac at my friends work, so that is why I know of Mac OS X. I'll stick with XP until I get a new PC computer in the future and they fix all the kinks out of Vista (about a year after it's release).
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Haha, I'm jealous too. Did they just do it by random selection?
No, everyone who submitted at least 1 bug report during the beta received a fully licensed copy of Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows Vista Business. Very nice of Microsoft as far as I'm concerned! 
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Just got an email from Microsoft…a licensed copy of Vista Ultimate is to be sent in February as thanks for participation.
Hopefully mature video drivers will be available then. Or at least by 2008 when the next round of great video games is released.
But what toy left out was that is one of the bennys to actually beta testing ans finding a flaw and reporting it..rather that just having Vista and bragging about it..lol
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Re:Haha, I'm jealous too. Did they just do it by random selection?
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Not really a repost, guy…more of a follow-up/clarification.
Your link includes a link which states that no copy will be mailed, only a key, and that the OS must be DL'd…however I now know that a physical copy of the OS will be sent. It is also clarified that Ultimate is being sent, not Business, and that it will occur in 02/2007.
Curiously, I never received the intial email in November. Glad to have received today's email though.
Not to derail the thread, but fwiw, I was thinking the same thing as guy. You could have posted your op word-for-word in the original thread.
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Re:Originally posted by: hans030390
I am jealous.
Ditto… we all hate you guy! 
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Re:Not really a repost, guy…more of a follow-up/clarification.
Your link includes a link which states that no copy will be mailed, only a key, and that the OS must be DL'd…however I now know that a physical copy of the OS will be sent. It is also clarified that Ultimate is being sent, not Business, and that it will occur in 02/2007.
Curiously, I never received the intial email in November. Glad to have received today's email though.
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