Yeah! thanks Vla for the heads up, for those of you that took up our advice and signed up to the DX 9 beta, it may well of paid off, as the application today came to a close. People who are accepted should start hearing about it soon, and small little birds are telling me that MS has refreshed its Beta team with "all new" testers for Windows 2000 SP3, it could happen with DX9 too. The blurb from the Direct X page is below.
DirectX 9.0 Beta Program
The DirectX beta program is now closed. All gamers who submitted applications to the beta program should hear back from the DirectX team by the end of November.