From what i read about Windows 7 and Vista, it sounded like they were testing some of their code outside of Windows 7 and ended up spending so much time/money on testing they just tossed it with a few other things and made Vista, lol.

Since service pack 1 Vista has been considerably more reliable. The only negative to XP Pro is it cant properly handle multiple cores to make use of them

To this day I still consider Vista to be a joke.

I wasn't one of those taken in by the shiny graphics and flashy bits.  If I want poor and disappointing flashy bits I'll go to the man on the corner of the road wearing a long rain coat over his birthday suit.  Unfortunately though, the underlying operating system was bloated and, well, frankly crap.  I evaluated Vista about 10 months ago using a friend's copy and really got fed up of it quite quickly.  One of the things that *really* made me laugh was how some of the "widgets" and other flashy stuff was taken directly from Ubuntu Linux, yet looked like it had been implemented by a six-year-old.  So instead I wiped Vista and went back to dual booting with Windows XP and Ubuntu. 

I really hope Windows 7 will be a big improvement on Vista, but I'm not holding my breath.

indeed, one of my co-workers said all the reviews he'd read so far were positive.

I'm no MS fanboy X(

So was longhorn . Look how that turned out.

I will eventually test it myself, on real hardware and vm, but i havnt been around to download it yet (The official beta testing thing seems to be always down for me...).

Had..

I love it . And i'm a *really* tough critic.

Things to mention though:
- Still has IE.
- Couldn't pick up my audio card.

It installed flawlessly on my secondary computer and works slightly faster then my primary computer (Which has a superior processor, graphics, and twice the ram).

I tried it out, nothing special. Just adds an extra annoyance to take out (only takes 5 minutes, but still), that pesky dock-like piece of penis taskbar.

As can be seen here, it can actually be made usable:
http://i43.tinypic.com/5znur9.jpg

windows 7?

i have vista and im operating on windows 8 beta.

rofl troll!!!!!

i think he meant internet explorer 8 beta.

I installed it on my tower the other day I like how the taskbar is for Windows 7 more then XP/Vista. The little pop up when you hover is nice.

It's been running at a constant of 1.2gigs of ram in use at all times it seems. Pretty similar to Vista.

The task bar had a little glitch for me yesterday. None of the icons or button outlines for the clock, wireless and one other thing were showing but you could click where they were supposed to be and it'd work. I moved the taskbar to the side and then back to the bottom and it fixed it's self

The installation was great It found every single driver for my tower! Even the D-link wireless card that doesn't have drivers for XP 64bit from D-Link X(