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I got Beta 2 (5219) installed pretty easily except I could not format the drive or do anything with DiskPart at the command-line utility and had to install it beside the old one on the same disk. The Tablet stuff is there (why do they insist on installing this by default if I don't have a Pen???) and the Media Center stuff is there (pretty awesome). There seems to be lots of pleasing little changes to the UI that make it even more visually apealing. Still no true Glass out of the box for my NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 although it indicates “Glass” and does look better than the Beta 1 default. Doing the steps from here, I've gotten the WinFx CTP installation done and starting on Visual Studio (Beta 2!!!) now. And yes, once again, MSXML 6.0 Parser refuses to installl from VS setup but installs by hand.