An Encounter with Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

With the hype surrounding the Windows Vista ( Microsoft’s much acclaimed flagship Operating System for those who are still at large bout what nonsense am talking..) i decided to take part in the Customer Review Program of the RC1 which Microsoft is/was offering.
I read through pages and pages of review to make sure that the release was the top-of-the line Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. After being satisfied that it was indeed so i decided to register to get a Product Key. By-the-way Microsoft gave free Product Key for testing the Beta2 of Vista and also is giving(or gave??) for RC1 which you can safely use on upto 10 PC as is stated by Microsoft in the e-mail and you have to register that copy of Windows Vista to activate it so that you can use it till 31st May 2007 else you get to use it for 14 days only. Having gone through the elaborate process of registering and getting a Product Key decided finally to get(read download 2.52GB of pure shit by wasting my precious bandwidth) my copy of Vista. Having downloaded it at a constant rate(got 40kBps
) in 18 hours i found to my horror that it required a 20GB hard disk with 15GB free space(which effectively translates to a free partition of 20GB or more). My 40GB hard Disk being partitioned into 15GB(C: Drive) and 22GB(D: Drive) i had to redo the partitions.
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