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Vista Beta 2 Goes Public But Shedding Features

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Kennedy Pearce - March 09
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You have the required specifications, the will power and the patience, are you now ready to install Windows Vista?
Microsoft has released the second beta of Windows Vista to the general public. It's the first version of Microsoft's next generation operating system to be offered out to public scrutiny and testing, however, the operating system continues to shed features as Microsoft struggles to get a final version out of the front door.

The latest feature to be axed is PC-to-PC synchronisation. The tool is, as its name suggests, for synchronising files between two machines running Windows Vista. The company cited quality concerns as the reason for the axe, although they did stress that development of the synchronisation tool was continuing and they would make it into a Vista update after launch.

In other Vista news, Computerworld has compiled a list of 20 things you won't like about Windows Vista. Along with the expected issues surrounding Vista's high minimum specs (seemingly inflated to drive a global hardware development and procurement surge), it also lists its trust and user account controls as a main source of frustration as it results in an endless stream of permission warnings and even desktop lockouts. What will surely astound, unless you use Office 2007, is they've removed the File, Edit, View menus system wide. They've taken this 20 year old user interface element and jumbled them up in a mish-mash of submenus and buttons. Crazy! The article finishes up by pondering on why Microsoft copies features mostly from Apple, but in the case of IE7, Mozilla, and makes them worse rather than better.

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