I'm sure some here have been reading up on the newest release due sometime next year.

I was able to play around with pre-beta build 6801. Initial impressions is a vista look and feel.

Very stable however the pre-beta shows that not all is enabled.

More to come

right on, so its a new core but made to look like vista?

it looks similar to vista, you know pretty icons and stuff

Just has that look and feel, explorer, control panel, etc. More close to vista than xp type of comparision.

The super bar is pretty interesting. IE8 url drop down now shows more than the manually entered urls, it also brings up a complete history.

works great, just installed it on my back up system, only problem i have at the moment is trying to figure out a solution for my audio drivers