Hilton Locke posts more about app compatibility (or is it incompatibility) with Windows Vista Beta 1. He actually seems quite entertained by some of the workarounds needed to test certain apps with the new beta. Here’s a quote:
If this keeps up, Windows will just be an environment that runs Virtual PCs. We'll have Petahertz CPUs with Petabye storage, in a package that you can clip to a lanyard (a la WMA players) all just so that we can run Virtual PCs hosting old Windows.
Sometimes I crack myself up...
Here’s the link.