Windows 7 over Vista pool

Im greatly curious about your opinion and expectations on Windows 7, please feel free to speak about it.

I dont exactly agree that i started with the assumption that Vista is bad, but i meant as a pimped up vista. Im using vista on my athlon 64+ 3500 and im pretty happy with it.

It's already been confirmed that Microsoft is not screwing with the OS in any large manner, and that the upgrade/switch from Vista is therefore supposed to be more or less seamless. Same Kernel, Same driver model, etc etc etc... ("MinWin" was an internal toy and never intended for production) So, depending on your point of view, then it'll either be "Vista SP2" /spit or perhaps 'What Vista Should Have Been 2 Years Ago". Regardless, Randall Kennedy at Infoworld has already made the transition from Vista bashing to Win 7 bashing. Yes, you read right: Win 7 isn't even a Beta product yet, and he's already screaming about how terrible it's going to be. Seeing as the bashers are already trying to set the tone, I guess we can look forward to two more years of misinformed, distorted b*llshit from the XP crowd.


I did hear that MSFT were looking at making some of the services optional, so users can choose whether to use them or not without having to resort to vLite and other programs to strip them out. Not a lot of information has been forthcoming on that, though. And since the Beta is currently set to start in December, and making a 'chinese menu' out of Windows services isn't exactly a trivial excercise, I have my doubts as to how much of the rumor is accurate versus how much is wishful thinking.

if linux didnt exist i would "put up" with vista, but luckily free, open source, personally customizable software exists that performs at a very similar level to vista (at least for my uses, sans games). It would definetely be nice to see an innovative, customizable windows 7; if Microsoft succeeds, they may manage to win me back from free software.

pool?