Mindshare Groups and Vista

I coordinate a senior's user group that belongs to the Microsoft Mindshare program. Yesterday I received a "Mindshare Package" that contained a CD with Vista Beta (good for 10 uses) on it to give away as a door prize. From the notes on this newsgroup, it doesn't seem like Vista is stable enough to just give it away as a door prize. Especially with the inability to uninstall it easily and return to XP. Those of you who have installed this software - does it seem stable enough at this point to make it a door prize at a user group meeting? It seems to me I would have to give a lot of "install this with caution" messages.

Thanks for your thoughts.Tom

Install with caution would apply, so would:

- Do not install this on a production machine that you rely on working correctly- Do not install this on a machine where you cannot afford to lose the data- Do not upgrade an existing installation unless you are comfortable with formatting in order to return to where you started- Do not upgrade an existing WindowsXP installation where IE7 beta is installed- Do not expect all your existing software to be compatible with this new operating system- Do not expect this operating system to support all of your hardware correctly

-- Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Tom from WI"

"Tom from WI"

And:This operating system will stop working after 31 May 2007.

-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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Good advice. I printed it out and will include it with whoever gets the disk.Tom"Rick Rogers"