Microsoft Windows Vista β2

I have installed Vista β₂ on my laptop, a Gateway 7426GX. It installed and runs very well. I have the laptop configured to dual boot with Windows XP Pro on another partition. Also it runs all the eye candy, including glass and the sidebar well.

The only issue is that their may be an issue with the modem driver, it would throw up some error about the modem every once in a while. I disabled the modem through the Device Manager, and now I don't get the warning.

I did have it hang up once when using Media Center, with movie files on the laptop. It didn't crash, but it locked the processor at 100% for several minutes. Then Vista noticed it, and spent another 10-15 minutes sending the report to Microsoft.

Overall I think Vista is a nice improvement. It is relatively stable for a beta operating system. I think the eye candy is nice, though not necessary. Once I decide what software I want to install, I may try to run the operating system under a limited-user account.