To follow up to my previous post, Vista Beta 2 still has my pet bug - if you assign a network drive an early letter (such as E or F) , and then plug in a removable drive, it will often get allocated a letter that is already in use.
Vista is also near impossible to use if you're in 16 colour mode, which the installer was, because it didn't correctly detect the onboard Intel video. After getting that fixed, the next order of business was getting Bon Echo (the Firefox 2 alpha) and Office 2007 Beta 2 installed.
If someone spent a while making OpenOffice.org feel and operate a bit more like, say Office XP, as it stands on Windows today, then it would be a real killer application (unless, of course, Google cuts everyones lunch). However, I really don't think that people are going to want Office 2007, when it changes the interface so much from what they've learnt to tolerate. I couldn't even find the File menu for four minutes! I hope there is a "make this feel like Office XP/2003" option, as lots of people I know don't even want to know about the newfangled Windows XP (green/two panel) start menu.
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