Yea - Windows 7 rocks in beta 1 stage - OS needs about 15 seconds to start. Looks like Vista (my favourite OS btw), and have speed comparable with XP > 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
If I can judge about present look and feel of beta 1, we can expect final version in 2009, (I hope so :yes: ) but.........Windows has always drawn speculation; probably because it is so intrinsic to everything that we do with computers. Windows 7 was originally time-lined 2011, later reports put it at 2010; and now 2009 ?!? All this smoke of Windows 7, being released in 2009, may have led to confusion in the minds of the Windows Vista user. Did he make a mistake in upgrading? Or should he have waited? Microsoft feels that there is STILL a lot of innovation and value that needs to flow to the customers, from Vista.  
  
First - there will be SP2 for Vista (in beta testing for some time), then Windows 7 release.