A few readers have pinged me with questions about the Vista SP2 pre-beta that's making the rounds and wondering what I have to say about it.

Here's a quick Q&A based on the questions I'm getting:

• How do I get it?
  Details here.
• Do I need to install this?
  No. At present there's nothing new to see beyond patches and updates that have come in normally for Windows Vista since SP1.
• Is it safe to install?
  Don't even think about installing this on your main PC as bad things could happen! Install it onto a test system or a virtual machine.
• How big is the download?
  A shade under 300MB. There's also a 4MB servicing stack update.
• What's it look like?
  Install process + the changes made to the system ID can be seen here.
• When will this go public?
  Probably around Q2 '09.

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