My reliability experience with Windows Vista Beta 2 hasn't been all that positive: Find out what went wrong with my main desktop PC over the past month as I tried to make Windows Vista my sole OS. I was actually hoping that Microsoft would delay the public release of Windows Vista and would instead ship a post-Beta 2 build, such as the excellent build 5456 that it just released. Ultimately, Microsoft did of course ship Beta 2 publicly, and despite my concerns it appears that many of the people who downloaded it aren't having the same kinds of problems I did. Just before installing build 5456 on my desktop system late Friday night, I decided to take a quick run through the new Reliability Monitor, which is part of the Performance Diagnostic Console. You can find this in Vista by opening the Start menu and typing perf into the instant search box.

Paul Thurrott Windows SuperSite