Having used the Windows 7 release candidate (32bit...64bits is just 32bits too many for me) for a few weeks now, I have to say I'm impressed.
When I first saw Vista (many moons ago), it was a pile of steaming shite. It was slow to respond, a memory hog and overall just completely crap.
Windows 7 is a whole other bag. It's responsive, easy on the memory (under 1GB used when idle on my machine, with a fair few things running) and a really nice user interface.
I'm liking the taskbar application preview (something I hope Snow Leopard introduces for the Mac) and I also like the sidebar gadgets (which I know Vista has already, but it will be new to XP users).
The networking and firewall side of things isn't fantastic, but I can see why they've done it the way they have (dumb users). I'm hoping the profressional version I have on order will mean I have a few more options to switch off when I eventually install.
Anyway, for now it gets my seal of approval and I'd recommend it for anyone using XP at the moment who has a decent enough machine...2Ghz + and at least 1GB of RAM as well.
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