Can anyone tell me whoever is a user of the current beta what the memory usage is for 1 window I prefer to have results from actually users than current reviews of it.

IE7 with 1 window open uses around 70mb occasionally with just the download window 160mb has been used ????

Well vista hardly runs or installs properly with the software as supplied on the originally dvd.

Meddling in this fashion with such a duffer of an os will almost certainly end in more tears.

Should have called it sh*t streaming.

--just adding in more useless bloaty crap....

nLite lets you slipstream IE7 as easily as simply selecting the IE7 setup file and clicking ok - see http://www.nliteos.com/faq.html#Q33

And "slipstreaming" a copy of Opera or Firefox into an unattended XP installation takes just under 10 seconds, whee, what an improvement.

As if IE7 doesn't have worse problems they should be working at.

When you could easily use Frontmotion Firefox .msi files that support silent and remote installing to have Firefox on the new machine in under 4 seconds :)

I may have misunderstood this article but it seems to me that while this feature could be useful for corporate tech support, where they may want to do all their new installs from a customised image, for an end user it implies an assumption that they're going to have to re-install their entire OS multiple times.

It seems now that for many people, who have only ever used Windows (whatever version), spontaneous destruction of the OS is normal and to be expected.

To use an automobile analogy, if MS were making automibiles, they'd be suppliying a tow-truck with each one.