Thanks.  =)

Well, I figured it could be handled coolly, but ... worst case scenario
where there was some hitch here, I really would owe it to you and every
other user to get this stopped immediately.  It's really bad stuff.  So I
apologize if you felt threatened, but at the same time I hope you can
respect that that software was about the worst possible thing somebody could
distribute.  Not bad towards my ego or pride (I don't really have those
issues), but to the *users*.  I'm working on making WMP11 as rock-solid as
possible, and that package was a gut-shot of cr*p that contaminates the
systems of people who are supposed to care about WMP - so the very people
you and I want providing good feedback... those people get boned for no
understandable reason.  The WMP11 installer is light-years better than the
WMP10 installer, but even so it likely won't be able to recover from a
system corrupted with that broken package.  So... yeah.  Bad news.  Thanks
very much for quickly killing it.

I'm under NDA so can't comment about the dates.  WMP11 for Windows XP has
been previously confirmed in the MS / Urge press release, among other items,
I believe.  I can't really provide you any information you don't know of or
can't garner from other sites, but I'm not aware of any major release of the
player ever that didn't have a beta.  Are you in the Vista beta program?
That's probably the quickest way to get your hands on WMP11.*  =)

-Zach
* But as noted the Vista bits are *only* for Vista - my XP binaries will run
on Vista, but my Vista binaries on XP will either not run or do bad things
since they're expecting the system-wide Vista updates