I have an MSDN copy at the moment, its nice enough, but you can tell its still a beta.  Its less stable than Vista, but at the moment I kind of expect that.  Ive had issues with the ATi drivers not working very well, but then again I dont think itll be long before they do work ok.  

Running Public beta 7000 at the moment, and speed wise....It knocks Vista into a Cocked Hat!

The only thing that wont run properly so far is Zune player.  But a quick extract and install the specific files and its fine.  All hardware detected and looks quite tasty.

Strange cause everything Ive seen says Win7 boots faster than Vista but thats it, nothing else has changed much speed wise.

You may have been looking at the transition stuff, 7 features on the vista base, as they swap over more stuff to the 7 elements its got faster, should get faster each month now till launch at the end of the year and all being well with the progress bung in the new kernal, which they should do if things keep on the pace. They say it wont just to cover their backs since they are having to rush it out.

Lets face it though, with the general opinion on vista being pretty negative, pretty much everything is a vista killer, including my left pinky.

I find that funny though, they say after 1st July 2009, what about everyone else who paid full whack for the OS and then be told to go buy another OS as they messed up lol.

Must admit though I have Vista Ultimate x64 and it works like a dream on the shuttle SX38 but it does get sluggish after a while so constantly tweaking it.

Indeed, but the thing is the majority will sit back and wait anyway bar the likes of OEMs etc as they need the OS.

Personally if I could get the games I play to work in linux well I would make the swap. I have used the likes of Cedega and Wine but they tend to cause a few problems for me.

Looks like Ill be skipping Vista, Im still happily running XP 64.