Digital Home Thoughts: Windows Vista Beta 1 Screenshots, Press Release, and Fact Sheet

Microsoft has released several screenshots of Windows Vista, as well as a press release about the Beta release and a fact sheet. It looks like Microsoft is trying to make Windows Vista even easier to use than Windows XP (for the average home user). I'm especially interested in all of the file information that appears at the bottom of the file browser window, particularly the ability to rate things. I'd love to be able to sort all of my pictures from "Wow" to "Why did I take a picture of that?". :lol: But what is The Hive?