[RawAlex]

Well, after a couple of days of it, Windows7 isn't all that bad at all. The situation of vista and W7 reminds me very much of ME to XP.

ME was actually a very good stab at advancing the windows world. It was certainly a big step up from Windows98. Yet at the same time, it was a little too beholden to the past, and a little too bold in some ways, and had some obvious flaws.

Vista sort of did that too.

Now, XP has turned out to be a pretty reasonable OS. Security issues up the ass, but the basic concept wasn't terrible. Most people can live with it, and have for a long time. When offered Vista, they looks, turned their noses up, and left with their XP install intact.

W7 finally breaks that for me. It work enough like XP that it isn't a big mental step, but I can see where things are much more robustly made, and where they have started from a much more solid structure. I am sure there are issues, but it starts, it runs, and generally handles everything I do without an issue.

Heck, I even tested one of my most CPU and graphically intense programs, X-Plane 9 (you can download the demo) and turned it up pretty much to stupid levels of resolution and fill, and it handled it without any real issues. The overhead seems to be way lower.