Fix Vista? Ummm, did MS ever "fix" any of their other OS's? It's
all relative.
Yes, they did IMHO. Try Windows 98SE, that was really what Win95/98Gold should have been?....................... and I am a fanboy of Windows 2000, given that I quite liked Windows NT 4.0 SP6a

// off topic wind-up

It is surprisingly stable for a prebeta
There is no such thing as a "pre-beta" old chap.............. it is an "alpha"...... please trust me, as I studied ancient Greek at high school

//back again

@brokencrow

I ran Vista on a 128 mb video card, a gig of ram, and a 2.4 ghz
P4 (pre-HT) and it was a dog.
You might remember my test of a while back where I built two machines with 5+ year old components?..............

The key factor seemed to be to get a 256Mb video card?