I upgraded to the beta version because I had been getting a large number of Out of Sockets errors with the release version -- I had to restart Xolox 8-10 times in 8 hours. It seems to have gotten much worse in the past two weeks.

My System: 850 MHz Athalon, 512 Mb memory, Windows XP, without Service packs

Anyway -- pluses and minus of the beta version

Plus: Files are downloading faster -- I've got a large backlog of files that never downloaded under the release version that are suddenly comming in.

Plus: Beta version dies much less often that the release version. When it does die, I also send the error report to you (but not Microsoft)

Minus: About 1/3 of the downloaded files have hash errors -- a message box appears telling me about the error when the file finishes downloading. I didn't ever see this in the release version