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Most people also won't need or be able to use Ultimate. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx Vista Home Premium will probably be their biggest seller.

That's probably the widget bar. All the widgets can be configured, removed, or moved around your screen...the bar is not needed.

I'm also curious about how you got ahold of Vista...cause I want a copy to test, and it appears to be too late to join the official Beta.

WinXP 64 pro doesn't install anything from MS that isn't a crit update...because you need the Genuine Windows Widget to confirm you have a legit copy, and that widget doesn't work on Win64 XP. We are the redheaded stepchildren.

Damn, I can't see it to sign up for it. I forgot I had an account there....I have a feeling apps are closed, since it's not showing up on the list of things I sign up for.

Can't answer that reliably, but I'd be EXCEEDINGLY suprised if you lost data and documents...you may need to get new programs, but those should be few and far between, because you're SUPPOSED to be able to run older programs on this (like you are on XP...YMMV)

You want applications not to change, general? *looks at Adobe Photoshop 1 vrs CS*

ClamScan is a good scanner for Win64 Auto-backup software doesn't seem to work in Win64....good thing I don't mind doing manual backups of data, but the auto-backup of configurations would be nice. One nice thing about a dual-core Win64 machine is that you can assign tasks to just run on...

DO we NEED Vista? No. Should we WANT Vista? Probably. Go check out http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1950686,00.asp I've also seen vids of the beta. It's very nice, has some nice tools, and generally will help neat new aps to come along and go mainstream, so the soon it comes out (in a...

Pro works better, period. On a side note, the public beta of Vista is theoretically going to be available any day now (assuming the delay didn't push that back), if you want to dual boot and only use Vista for that one thing.