Wow check this out, it's so cool! http://www.windowsvistatestdrive.com/ You can play with a full (remote virtual server based) copy of Vista Ultimate in your web browser - it's a little bit slow, but still awesome! PS I tried to rate their PC using the Experience Index tool, but it produced an error

I wonder if it would possible to hijack the active-x control and hack ms

It seems that there are a couple of fun commercial games installed

steal its key

I don't think they'll let you install/run anything on it... So how'd you get a keyfinder on it?

I thought of trying to get the key as well (although it probably wouldn't activate anyway - their copy is not activated) - however, there's no internet connectivity in it and no way of getting files in otherwise, so I can't see how you'd get a keyfinder on there (and are there any keyfinders for Vista yet?). It doesn't seem very locked down though, so you might be able to run one on there if you could get one in. The Office 2007 key would also be there, although that is not a VLK so not of great use (when I opened one of the Office programs it displayed the reminded for activation)

I have already used a keyfinder on Vista, yes...
By the way, when I checked that site (it wouldn't let me in because it requires IE6 or 7, so I can't use the site), it said something about Vista Business being test driven. Did they change it?

It takes ages to load, its still not done.

It is definitely Ultimate edition (I checked in system properties). Maybe the "business" refers to it being a test drive intended to show the features useful to business users, rather than referring to the Business edition as such. Though the way it's written it does look like they are referring to the Business edition - strange...

what a cool website!
Yeah, It loads very slow ...

I tried loading it... it wouldn't get past the last loading bar...

Same for me too. I tried twice, same thing.

It doesn't seem to be working any more for some reason - I got on it last night, but now it just stops like you say. I did wonder whether once word got out about this it would stop working, as I don't really see how they can run the number of virtual Vista machines on their virtual server that there are likely to be demand for...

that jelly bean keyfinder had always worked on it if you ran it in xp mode, but they have released a version that doesn't need that

I used keyfinderthing. Worked without a hitch.

Well, I managed to shutdown the server a couple days ago (in an accident)... Its odd but it stayed shutdown for a while...

someone make it blue screen!

It works now, and it gets a 1.0 because of the graphics.

Back when they offered something similar with Windows 2003, I used Remote Desktop to connect directly, and then used RDC's shared drives feature to transfer files back and forth. I'll try that here.

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@ppc_digger
Running IE on Wine? That's what I did as well!

Looks like they've taken it down for some reason - I tried with both a US proxy and system locale set to US and still got that message, but I didn't get that message when I used it originally. How do you use the RDC client to connect to these things?

I think you need the external IP address of the system and the remote desktop needs to be enabled. Then, in theory, you just fire up your RDC client, enter IP address and login credentials and off you go... (I think this wouldn't work here since that Vista VM has no internet access, or am I missing something here? )

Back with Windows 2003, the website used the Remote Desktop ActiveX control to connect to the server, so it was a simple matter of looking at the source of the page. I bet this has something to do with RDC as well, so it's just a matter of finding the right settings.

It maybe based offa it but I doubt you would be able to use a simple RDC to connect.

This maybe a way MS is testing their hack protection

I managed to delete all the files that the local user had access to, using "del /F /S /Q *" in a command prompt.

Aside from that, I grabbed the actual activeX cab file, and it seems that this just connects into a virtual system on a server somewhere... Not RDP.

It says it uses the Virtual Server remote control function - do you reckon there's a way of using the Remote Control Client that comes with Virtual Server to connect to it, as there must be a way of getting files in if you use that?