Oops, major step backwards.
After going thru the entire hour-long+ setup process, I got to the "setup your computer" screen. The one which asks you what your user name and password is, etc. That screen went so slow that you could leave the room between keystrokes! Honest to god, it was almost twenty minutes to get past the 5-screen setup process (after the OS was already installed).
So I finally get done with that stage of things, and I'm booted into the OS. So the first thing I attempted to do was file my bug reports against the setup screens (I found three different bugs in the setup screens). But there was a problem. The network cards, which Vista has always been able to find and install in the previous three releases I've used, were not installed.
OK, so the two NICs that I have are both unsupported in this release. Fine. I figured that I'd manually install the drivers. Nope, wrong answer there too. It told me it found a driver, but stayed on the "I found a driver, so I'm installing it" screen for over a half-hour before I finally rebooted the machine.
Essentially, Vista is dead in the water on my machine because I can't get the network up and running. I've given up on it for the day today, but I'm going to try tackling it tomorrow again to see if I can get it working.
I have noticed that a number of the bugs I filed in the last release have been fixed in this release. So that's a good sign. Now if only I could get this release to be useful....
Pssst. I can send you a copy of Mac OSX and it will work 100% out of the box and you will never have to reboot.
Just let me know.
har. har. har.
Ass. :-P
lol@bill
Aaron, look on the bright side: Microsoft could have sent an OS so backwards you wished it was a Commodore PET.
Of course, from the sounds of things, you might wish that already...
w00t, got the networking stuff working, and I'm set. I even found a way to get CodeWarrior's remote debugger stub to work under Vista.
I'm half-tempted to switch to using the Vista CTP as my main OS for a while just to see how well everything works.
It still needs some polish, but overall, it's a much nicer drop than the Dec one.