~pcwiz Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 http://www.windowsvistatestdrive.com Lets you try Vista in a web browser, fully functional Vista!! Just make sure you have a broadband connection and Internet Explorer What it does is it opens a virtual machine connection (like VMware) except on a remote MS server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 It's sad that they have to go doing stuff like this just to get people to use Vista.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostgame Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Who's gonna use IE just for the purpose of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I'm going to try and screw one VM up. *Starts up windows machine..* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 MoC, I'm gonna give it a try too, but I think MS would be careful with their stuff EDIT: I found something hilarious. When the MS Vista VM is loading in the background, my web browsing is like 5 times faster! List of desctructive things that I did to the VM: 1) Renamed BOOT.BAK in C: to genius.BAK 2) Destroyed a lot of stuff in Program Files Hee hee. Tried to format C but it wouldn't let me because it was the boot drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Wow, how awesome is it to try Windows Vista. People hate you more now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 LOOK!!!! PWNED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 Ha But whats so PWNZ0RD about the first one? Its just a Run screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 People hate you more now. Are you talking about me? :glare: :pirate2: You do not talk to a fellow staff member like that, sir (jk) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 @ #'zz: Woah dude. Overboard I DISABLED SOFTWARE LICENSING AND LOOK AT WHAT I GOT!!!!! (WITH A REAL BUT NOT LEGAL KEY!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 @~pcwiz: I was talking to Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Isn't there some way to extract the product key from a validated machine? You might be able to get a legit key from one of the VMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semi-fly Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I am not amused. They should just give up already...hell they're already working on Windows 7 (due out in 09' or 10'). Say Hello MSBOB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ch0rx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I am not amused. They should just give up already...hell they're already working on Windows 7 (due out in 09' or 10'). Say Hello MSBOB! Vista was due YEARS before it's release... they also start working on it soon after XPs launch... I don't understand why people think the production of windows 7 symbolizes failure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Hmm...they're gonna have a hard time winning over Mac users with that requirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 Isn't there some way to extract the product key from a validated machine? You might be able to get a legit key from one of the VMs. There is, you can use Everest to get the product key but they don't allow any outside programs.There is a way to BYPASS the system requirements check!!! Just go to this URL and you are in but here comes the bad news:You can get to the VM console but the VM doesn't appear w/o the ActiveX control which is IE onlyhttp://www.windowsvistatestdrive.com/lab.a...&exercise=4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Harrison Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Wow, other than the graphics that ran better then Vista Ultimate on my real computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPirate Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 So who's tried to crash this Vista by running infinite loops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAngry Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 What do you guys intend to accomplish with this? To me you're all looking more like a bunch of kids that think they own the world by killing a virtualized Windows installation. Come on, as soon as you log of, or close that window, the installation is destroyed anyway, and for every new user logging in a new one is created... I think Microsoft found a good way to demonstrate their new OS to existing Windows users. But nooo... just because Apple doesn't offer something like this, Microsoft is being lame because they do. And don't think I'm a MS lover of some kind, just look at my sig. I just think some people really need to play some more Brain Training now and then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 What do you guys intend to accomplish with this? To me you're all looking more like a bunch of kids that think they own the world by killing a virtualized Windows installation. Come on, as soon as you log of, or close that window, the installation is destroyed anyway, and for every new user logging in a new one is created... I think Microsoft found a good way to demonstrate their new OS to existing Windows users. But nooo... just because Apple doesn't offer something like this, Microsoft is being lame because they do. And don't think I'm a MS lover of some kind, just look at my sig. I just think some people really need to play some more Brain Training now and then... Apple dont offer something like this because effectively you running OS X on your PC which Apple's own EULA forbids, the fact your running through a web browser and VM shouldn't change that fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 What do you guys intend to accomplish with this? To me you're all looking more like a bunch of kids that think they own the world by killing a virtualized Windows installation. Come on, as soon as you log of, or close that window, the installation is destroyed anyway, and for every new user logging in a new one is created...I think Microsoft found a good way to demonstrate their new OS to existing Windows users. But nooo... just because Apple doesn't offer something like this, Microsoft is being lame because they do. And don't think I'm a MS lover of some kind, just look at my sig. I just think some people really need to play some more Brain Training now and then...Actually, MasterofComputers discovered that even if you use a different email address, you still get the same virtual machine.What do you guys intend to accomplish with this? To me you're all looking more like a bunch of kids that think they own the world by killing a virtualized Windows installation. Come on, as soon as you log of, or close that window, the installation is destroyed anyway, and for every new user logging in a new one is created...I think Microsoft found a good way to demonstrate their new OS to existing Windows users. But nooo... just because Apple doesn't offer something like this, Microsoft is being lame because they do. And don't think I'm a MS lover of some kind, just look at my sig. I just think some people really need to play some more Brain Training now and then...Actually, MasterofComputers discovered that even if you use a different email address, you still get the same virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Wow. If Vista was as slow running locally as it is running in the VM I'm using at the moment, nobody would use it. Great advertisement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FujitsuFreak Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Right now its deleting everything in the C drive. I also made forty partitions. I set one of those as the boot partition, and deleted the partition it came with. I plan on making it reboot as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jotokun Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I tried loging into one of these things out of curiosity, but my machine running vista wont let me do it... do these VMs let you use CD/DVD rom drives? If yes, I wonder how long it would take to convert a VM to a hackintosh, or even better, ReactOS(Unfinished Open Source WinNT/2000/XP clone). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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