Windows Vista Business Test Drive

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Windows Vista Business Test Drive

by Ryan Carter (RSS feed) Jan 7th 2007 at 3:00PM

If you didn't get to play around with Windows Vista during the betas, or just didn't want it on your system, now you can test drive some of it online, courtesy of Microsoft. This isn't a full virtual Vista system to play with (though it looks like it is) but it walks you through some of Vista's new features and lets you try them out, one by one. It is a good way to get a feel for Vista's new features if you haven't already played with it. Some of the new and improved features are Backup scheduling, Restore, Windows Defender, Diagnostics, Live Icons, Sidebar, Gadgets, Data synchronization, and Advanced web page printing. Since I had played with Vista a while back, I already had a chance to try this stuff out, but if you didn't it is something you might want to try.

via ActiveWin

Tags: test drive, TestDrive, vista, windows

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kat said 6:58PM on 1-07-2007

I'm getting a message that they're updating, please check back later.

musicphreke said 6:21PM on 1-07-2007

and of course if you go to it, it's currently down :P

Tony said 11:25AM on 1-09-2007

And it still dones not work!

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