Mike Miles of the WiFi Team announces on the Un-Wired blog that the latest beta release of WiFi Center, the WiFi connection and security manager, is up on Connect.

Improvements to the beta include (from the blog entry):

• Support for Vista (whew, just in time… Vista will be publically available in January)
• Performance improvements
  • Reduced the amount of time it takes to first load the application
  • Reduced CPU usage
• Quality Improvements. 
  • Ability to install on non EN-US operating systems.
  • Several Connectivity and Managing Network issues resolved.
  • Resolved some timer issues and fixed the Last Connected Time in Connection History.
  • No more Splash screen.  Since the load time is faster it was no longer necessary.

Read more about WiFi Center on their blog, you can request access into the beta here: BellBeta@Microsoft.com.  To try out HotSpot Locator, just go to hotspot.live.com.