Hey that's right! My mfc42.dll is beta too... pretty weird...

Don't embarass yourself with your own ignorance! This file dates back to Visual Studio Service Pack 4, and guess what? It has been flagged as "beta retail" ever since. The same ship ships with Windows 2000 and Windows ME.

Phoenix - GET INFORMED!

And btw, your cute theories about IE are FALSE as well. Both DX8.1 and IE6 in Windows XP are FINAL RETAIL.

Yeah, it is final. Perhaps you should of searching MS knowledge base first before posting this incorrect "news"...

Another funny thing is written in the DirectX.log, located in XP Folder.

One line says:

10/23/01 18:02:30: Installing on Whistler

I'm running build 2600 (final). I noticed when trying-out remote desktop, which needs IIS to run (urgh) that the ActiveX control that you download from the remote machine says RC2 on it! LOL.