{"id":9,"date":"2005-08-08T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.134.195.199\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-08-02T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:09:08","slug":"vista-beta-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/vista-beta-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista Beta 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve finally downloaded the ISO from <tag>MSDN<\/tag> and started loading it in a Virtual PC VM for a first test. So far, the install seems to be running very smoothly&#8230; I&#8217;ve been asked where to install it to &#8211; and I can play around with the partition sizes etc. I&#8217;ve been asked for a Product Key, and that&#8217;s about it&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be intrigued to see if it picks up my UK keyboard, and how it works out my timezone etc.<\/p>\n<p>If it all goes well, I&#8217;m thinking of making my laptop at home a dual boot machine &#8211; I have a second hard drive that goes in the multi-bay slot that I currently use for backups&#8230;.. I might just vape that and try it out as well &#8211; to see what performance is like on a dedicated machine rather that a VPC&#8230;.. I suspect that I&#8217;ll have to bite the bullet and buy some more RAM though &#8211; the 256Mb I have at the moment is likely to kill performance more that anything.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty more to come in the coming days \/ weeks I suspect&#8230;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve finally downloaded the ISO from MSDN and started loading it in a Virtual PC VM for a first test. So far, the install seems to be running very smoothly&#8230; I&#8217;ve been asked where to install it to &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/08\/vista-beta-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longhorn-vista","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBD-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}