>One of the MS guys at DevCon indicated that you could have VFP7 installed side-by-side with VFP 6 with no adverse affect but the same may not hold true for the full-blown .NET

Well, it wasn't this MS guy. :-) The box upon which I'm typing right now has VS.NET, VS6 Ent., VFP 5.0, VFP 3.0, and FPW2.6, all of which seem to work just fine. However, as with all beta software, I wouldn't try this on a production machine.

As for the original question of distributing the DevCon tech preview, that would violate huge portions of the NDA. I would strongly advise against anyone burning a CD for someone else, let alone sticking it up on an FTP site.