Vista was quite good OS too, it was just the driver support that lacked. They rewrote the whole driver tech so manufacturers had to add new kind of support for Vista and that wasn't ready when consumers tried to use Vista.

Why were you beta testing on a production machine?

I have been enjoying the flat interface of Visual Studio (yes, really). I think it looks very nice and simplified. It's weird that Slashdotters now want Aero, especially after saying Aero was so bad and they continued to use the old windows classic theme,

I've been testing Windows 8 for some while and I must say it's borderline awesome to use.