The first alpha preview released in 2002
Build 4029, Released in 2003. It had many changes over previous releases:
· New welcome screen design
· Image previews when hovering over an image file
· Setup has been improved yet again
· New sidebar clock design
· Messenger Tile and People tile added (Works with Windows Messenger 5)
· Explorer and Preview pane now faster
· Internet Explorer now has a popup blocker
Build 4074 - Released in May of 2004
Build 5048 - Released in May of 2005. This version started to have the Aero glass features we all know about today in the final version of Vista.
Build 5219 - The first Community Technical Preview. It was released to a wider audience, in mid 2005
Build 5259 - Now known as Vista, Beta 2. Released in the later half of 2005. Notice that it is the fist build that has the new start menu button
Build 5354 - By this time Microsoft had settled on the GUI, and was working on bugs instead of any new features. Looks very similar.
Vista Business Edtion - Final version of Vista released.
Posted By: Steve Wiseman on Sunday, January 07, 2007
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