I got it through TechNet, but now MS has opened it to the general public to download. You can get a product key on the spot and it can be used on up to 10 computers. Although Vista RC1 is pretty nice, i’m wondering how this RC1/RTMness will play into the final version’s shipment. I’m guessing MS will ship Vista through Windows Update and have customers pay online. In terms of ease of use that would be great.. but it basically means that if you go for the “free” upgrade to RC1 now, you’re headed down the road of having to pay $400 when your RC1 version doesn’t work anymore (since it’s impossible to roll back to XP). Eh, Vista is pretty nice so.. oh well. It doesn’t really matter too much if you put your files on a different partition or hard drive, separate from the Windows installation. If you do have to do a new install of XP over Vista when the time comes it won’t hose anything.