Windows Vista Beta I recently had an opportunity to test drive the latest beta version of Windows Vista. I have to admit, I'm really impressed with some of the GUI enhancements. I'm anxious to test the final code, however, to see what the real-world hardware requirements will actually be. The beta needs LOTS of memory, but this could certainly be different with the optimized (retail) code. (The beta literally creeps with 384 MBs of RAM.)