Yesterday, Microsoft opened up Windows Vista for a public beta, so I thought, “What the hell, I’ll give it a try.”

First off, downloading the DVD image was a pain. Microsoft really needs to learn the virtues of bittorrent. The download would disconnect after only a few minutes, whether using a direct download or using Microsoft’s special download manager. It took me over a day to actually finish the download, and then I had to go in search of a blank DVD to burn it onto.
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