David wrote; "As a consultant, I have no choice but to be running Vista on some machine, 
 in order to prepare for the onslaught of questions I will be getting once my clients 
start buying machines with Vista pre-installed."

It must be particularly difficult with all the different flavors of Vista being offered. 
 From what I've read, the variations are much more pronounced than the difference 
between WinXP-Pro and WinXP-Home when they were first introduced.

David wrote: "The problem with asking at a mozilla forum, is that the folks there 
don't necessarily run both browsers as regularly as I do.  And TRY asking a mozilla 
question at an IE forum :)"

I sympathize [g].  On many technical questions, half the battle seems to be figuring 
out where to post the question.  (I've been trying to get more information the specs 
for GIF image files, because Google's Picasa -- and a number of other image-editing 
programs -- won't read a couple of old GIF files that I've downloaded from the web 
-- although Firefox, WordPerfect etc. read 'em just fine.  After a lot of experimentation, 
I figured out myself that reading the files into MS Paint and saving them again (with 
no editing changes), would fix whatever was non-standard about the files.  I still 
haven't been able to find out exactly what the problem was, and I can't find a forum 
with graphics experts that might be able to explain further.)

However, everybody has to keep IE if only to be able to download Windows updates, 
so if you haven't posted at MozillaZine, you might still give it a try.

David wrote: "Any idea where I can get a copy of RC2?"  

I doubt if you could get one that would work properly at this late date.  Microsoft 
has already "turned off" the beta test program.  Assuming you could find some other 
beta tester whom you trust who was willing to give you a copy of whatever (s)he downloaded, 
there's seems to be a pretty high probability that it wouldn't pass all Microsoft's 
activation and verification checks when you tried to install it.

Since you'll need the real thing for customer support anyway,  I assume your only 
choice is to wait till January and buy it.  Otoh, it you posted a query on this Forum 
with the title: "Is RC2 still available for download anywhere?", perhaps somebody 
else might have a better suggestion.

Good luck!

......mandy

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