I think I'm running FROM the beta of Vista; and I think I'll KEEP running from the production release, too.
My IT guru's new dual core Intel MacBook may well make an Apple user out of me. The first time he showed it to me he had OSX on the installed HDD and was running our corporate XP Pro core image inside a Parallels virtual machine. Last I saw, he was getting it set it up as a dual-boot machine with XP Pro installed using Bootcamp and OSX bootable from an external USB drive.
We're ALL Wintel at the office, running IBM boxes and laptops, so it was a real head-turner to see him walking around with this slick, white laptop.
It didn't impress me at all. Most of the visual effects I could achieve with WindowBlinds; I'm running IE7; WMP 11, and now Office 2007 Pro Plus on my WinXP system (that looks like OS X, replete with icons, top-positioned bar, rollback, and the dock)
Though because of my system, I had to run it in QEMU.
A few other things I'm also putzing with:
-Codewave MyTunes RSS: The ability to remotely access my iTunes library with a web browser.
-Songbird Player: A multimedia player based on Firefox/Gecko.
-Tor/Privoxy/Vidalia: Anonymizer using onion routing, developed in part by the U.S. Navy.
A co-worker's son installed that, just to have the latest. Uninstalled it very soon after. Dog slow.
Our house's Wintel machines are all Win98 with one Win2k. The XP Pro box has been opened but never installed.