Ok, for those of you that are interested I am going to post a screenshot from the Vista Beta 2 that I am messing around with and give you my brief thoughts on it. Many Mac lovers will say, "Mac already has that" for just about everything.... but I don't care who had it first, so no comments of that nature please.

First off, I like it. It has a great look (despite the system hog that it is, I'll mention that later). The fogged glass is very nice touch, at least for microsoft. The window animations are clean and brief and the new alt+tab rocks. You get live thumbnails of all your pages, not only with alt+tab but if you mouse over the buttons in the task bar you get the same effect.

The new file browsing made me cry for joy. As you can see in the screen shot you can not only jump to any parent folder, but to any child folder of any parent folder. This is obviously Windows response to Apples column browsing, and I think that it kicks column browsings butt. (I have been using OSX at work for a month now, and the column thing just doesn't do it for me)

Obviously, explorer couldn't put off the public any longer and finally added tab browsing, yeah for them. Also drawing from public demand they have native widgets as you can see in the images right hand side. These are detachable as well.

Over all it has been very stable. No freezes or crashes, which isn't bad for a beta. Also they have a link that you can send suggestions on improvements. (Hopefully they read them) They also have a new "sleep" mode that pretty much shuts your computer down, but only takes 4-6 seconds to start up. Very handy.

The bad news, it eats up your RAM and if you want to have the graphics at max (glass, fog and animation) you have to have a mid level machine. Also I installed the 64 bit version but I haven't been able to do any preformance tests.

There is a lot more than what is here, but I can't type that much. Enjoy the pic and ask questions if you have them.