Technical beta testers can now download the June CTP, AKA Build 5456. More details should follow, but you can read some more about it here. No word yet if the build will be available through public beta. I don’t think so because the next build for the public will be RC1, probably in August (via edbott.com).

Paul Thurrott from winsupersite.com has a very good (and critical) article on Vista. In his fifth CTP review he mainly writes about how disappointed he is in the upcoming Windows Vista release. He rambles about everything that is wrong with Vista and the company that’s releasing it. Vista seems to be just an upgraded version of XP and is released way too late. This sort of columns give Vista a really bad name but I do agree on the things Paul writes. MS should step up and add new and exciting features to the OS just like Apple, not just …read more

It seems that a couple of links have been leaked, so anyone can now download the 5308 build of MS Vista. The file is 2.71GB, and is named FebCTP_5308_32bit_Main_Staged_DVD.iso. Too bad for the freeloaders that the build can only be installed by those with a valid Windows Vista Product key, which are issued only to official testers and MSDN/Technet Subscribers (via jcxp.net).

Redmondmag.com has an article about testing Windows Vista and the way Microsoft could be doing more to improve it.
Some time this month, if Microsoft sticks to schedule, the company will deliver its latest test build of Windows Vista to hundreds of thousands of testers. Seems like a perfect time to contemplate how well Microsoft’s Vista beta/Community Technology Preview (CTP) program is going.
The Microsoft Connect servers seemed to have a hard time and were completely overwhelmed by testers who attempted to download the February Vista test build. Next to that there were problems with incompatible versions of Vista and Office, and …read more