The final major pre-release of Windows Vista – Release Candidate 1 (RC1) – is now available for download!

Please use the link below to access the download site, and install this release as soon as possible.

Go to the country selection to choose your download or order location!













The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences in Windows Vista, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer. The functionality extends to the support for Tablet and other forms of input, a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.
The Windows Vista Developer Story includes content for developers, and other technology experts and managers, interested in an in-depth exploration of some of the new and extended features in Windows Vista. It is released to the Windows Vista Developer Center in the form of brief articles, published approximately once every two weeks. Those articles are only a summary of the Windows Help file, which can be downloaded here.
We remind you that RC1 is pre-release software and you should not run this on production or mission-critical PCs. Support will be limited to newsgroups, and you may have to do a clean install to move from this release to the final release of Windows Vista.

Finally the long awaited Windows vista is poised to come.The new windows is made dynamically beautiful and interactive breaking the myth that Microsoft has been averse to developing aesthetic desktop computing.The whole of the world is just frenzy awaiting for the release..delayed twice. The RC1 infuses a new hope in acceleration of the release process.
Till then the original version is released the user grievances are to be catered by RC1.
Do pour in your bug reports to make Vista a really big product and an industry milestone.