...is simply goddamned ridiculous.
I went through the pain of getting the Beta 2.0 to the point of installing it a secondary server on my office network, one which isn't life-and-death-critical for me to do my job. After reading in the readme and elsewhere that I needed a gigabyte of free space on the System drive to install the Beta 2.0, I spent quite a bit of time trying to free up room on my 3.5 GB system drive. But I just couldn't find it. And I didn't install the Beta 2.0 on my network yet because of it.
Disk space and RAM are objects which real, hotshot developers should have coming out their ying-yang, I guess. I do what I can, but not every machine on my network can be state of the art.
To me, that 1 gigabyte system drive requirement to install the Beta 2 is just another example of Microsoft sloppy execution and arrogance.