upgrade xp pro beta 2

If you are running Outlook 2003 and install Vista Beta 2 Business as an upgrade and try to backup your Outlook file you are in for a rude awakening. You will lose all the emails that you thought you had backed up and the original backup file and archive backup will both get corrupted and rendered useless. I found this out the hard way earlier today. I've lost over $600.00 worth of software that was purchased and downloaded over the past 6 months because of this MAJOR problem. Without the emails with the order info and serials, etc. the software cannot be replaced.
The fact that Beta 2 was unleasehed on an unsuspecting and unprepared public just makes it that much worse. I've been a beta tester since the days of Windows 3.1 and never experienced anything like this. No more will I defend Microsoft or its software as I have in the past.
We, as Beta testers, were asked to perform "upgrade scenarios" because Beta 2 was stable enough to do so. That was nothing but a lie. It is not stable by any stretch of the imagination. Build 5381 was far more stable than Beta 2 and that's unacceptable.
Beware and be warned that Microsoft can no longer be trusted as far as I'm concerned. And the $5.00 maximum for damages they refer to in the Beta 2 EULA is a joke for a multi-billion dollar company. I would venture to bet that no one ever receives one cent for their losses. I know I won't recoup anything for the losses I have suffered - all my emails from January 2006 through May 2006 are lost forever and most of them were business related correspondence.
I am so stressed out and frustrated at this point, I want nothing to do with Windows Vista or Microsoft products ever again. I don't feel like the company can be trusted at all. If/when a class action lawsuit comes out of this premature release of an unstable beta to the general public, I will be sure to get in on it as quick as I can. -- When all else fails.... read the instructions. -- When all else fails.... read the instructions.