There have been some reports about the instability of the latest beta of IE 8 included with the Windows 7 beta. I haven’t experienced any of those issues yet myself. Maybe it’s because I’ve spent so much time using the first two betas of IE 8 that I’m used to its, uh, peculiarities. That said, Microsoft has announced that IE 8 will be rolled into the Automatic Update feature of XP SP2 and above (Visat 32, 64, etc.). For those of you who cringe in horror at this, Microsoft is releasing a Blocker Toolkit for organizations (and individuals I am assuming) who want to put this off for a while. You can find it here:

IE 8 Blocker Toolkit