Vista Beta 2 finally loaded - like and dislike

So I finally got Vista Beta2 loaded onto a separate partition on my laptop and am dual booting it and my original Windows XP. While I dont get all the 3D magic as my laptop graphics card isn't quite capable, it still looks a very sexy beast. The UI is very slick, and it feels quite different.

I will post a little more detail around my thoughts with some screen shots of various elements, but one of my immediate likes is the RSSFeed gadgets to display RSS feeds of my choosing on the gadget sidebar. Very cool and very handy. I wish  the gadgets themselves were resizaeble though. Especially the clock gadget.

One simple and minor dislike is that I haven't figured out how to display the space left on the disk in the explorer view without going and looking into the properties of that disk. In the old (XP) explorer, I simply enabled the status bar, and the disk space was displayed in that all the time (when I had the disk itself selected). Now, it doesn't and there seems to be a lot of wasted space down there. Probably just missed something but I figure this should be pretty easy.....

Oh, one more thing. I installed OneNote2007 as well which looks good so far, but would have liked a OneNOte gadget to also be installed (and a couple of Office gadgets as well when I installed Office2007) but alas, no extra gadget funkiness. An upcoming meetings gadget might be usefull for example....

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