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1. Comment - Windows Vista, IE7 Betas Leak to Web

   (Jul 29, 2005 - 11:50 AM)

   All (or most anyhow) of you should hold your judgements until you know facts.
   
   1) IE7 isn't public, so stop whining. It was released to a select number of us that do real testing and bug reports to try to identify problems that can be hopefully resolved BEFORE it goes public. Leaked copies are not official public releases.
   
   2) About half of the "bloated 2.5GB OS" is just drivers. Lots of them. Ever tried to evaluate an OS with no mass storage driver, network driver, video driver??? Not much fun. I APPLAUD them for including them, it's makes for a much better beta experience. Then I don't have to waste my time calling all the manufactures and asking for their beta drivers.
   
   Postive news:
   It boots very fast, a good experience thus far.
   Your toolbars are likely being nuked as part of the anti-spyware efforts built in. How many crap toolbars have you had installed that you didn't want? 1 is too many. I'm sure they wouldn't permanently disable real toolbars, they'd be sued in a New York minute.
   Fact: It's beta, stuff won't work. That's the whole point of a beta program... find & try to fix fast.
   Cheers.