Today we’re making Windows Vista Beta 2 available. See Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 Fact Sheet:

Microsoft Corp. has released Windows Vista™ Beta 2 to developers and IT professionals with Microsoft® Developer Network (MSDN®) and TechNet subscriptions, as well as to members of the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and the TechBeta program. Microsoft will also make Windows Vista Beta 2 more broadly available in the coming weeks as part of the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP)

For those of you wishing to test out the Windows Vista version of Media Center this is definitely the best build to date. In fact, I’ve been running it at home as my primary Media Center for a weeks now and it works pretty good (my biggest compliant is that 5.1 audio isn’t working for me). But as always, there are a lot of ‘fit and finish’ issues with this beta release that will be fixed by RTM. Also, expect changes to the design. While this release is fairly representative of what you’ll see next January, later builds, like the one I run in the office have a lot of fixes and improvements that this public beta 2 build does not. That said, we’d still love to hear your feedback and answer your questions. Leave posts on this blog, or that of any of the other MSFT MCE bloggers as appropriate (for instance, UX/UI concerns are best discussed here and platform issues over at Aaron’s or Charlie’s), or leave a comment our beta newsgroups. There’s still some time left for us to react to your feedback and ensure we ship the best, most exciting version of MCE yet.

Update: For more information checkout the Windows Vista site.

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