Good Afternoon,
Information Services &
Technology (IS&T) would like to thank you all for expressing interest in
assisting the Windows Vista Release Project by becoming Vista testers at MIT.
We have created
The Release Team is also on
the list so we can help out.
The main focus of the
testing is to identify and track incompatibility issues with
You can get Windows Vista
RC1 which is available as a download from the Microsoft site http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx
.
We recommend that you set up
your test environment on a dedicated machine and not on a dual boot system. If
you run into a problem in getting a copy of
(RTM) version since that is
just around the corner.
Once you set up your test
environment and start testing Vista, please send your test results to
At this point we would like
to find out more information about the environment you support and plan to
deploy
* your
department name
* number
of PCs being used
* applications
supported
* is it an active directory
domain or do you have stand alone machines * is it part of win.mit.edu domain
We would like to emphasize
that Vista testers and early adopters should not contact the IS&T Helpdesk
at this time for any questions or problems but only report these to the
Thank you again for helping
the Windows Vista Release Project and becoming a