Some friends of mine are already running the new Windows "Longhorn" version. (What will eventually be called "Vista")
Looks alot like XP but I have not had a chance to play with it much. I may install it on ald old spare laptop I have, so I can poke around a bit and check it out. Not sure how much like the beta the final version will be. /shrug
I've already looked at it (month ago)-- its horrible. SLOW, SLOW, SLOW -- very large footprint -- very clunky -- nothing worked -- from network copy to renaming simple files to find -- it really irritated me. Its how many years late?