I loaded win7 in a vm the other day (I got my hands on it on Wed), and it took everything I pretty much *needed*. Quickbooks 9, Office 2007 etc etc.
Sooo yesterday I dropped a new drive in and loaded it directly on my box (quad 9950, Geforce 9600, 3gb ram, 2x22' dvi screens, asus onboard audio/nic) System came right up, Nvidia already has a driver in Windows Update, MSN, Office, Quicbooks, Rocketdock, City of Heroes all work as expected. A few apps aren't running right (I am on the 64bit where my vista was 32bit) - CutePDF, MagicDisc, MountISO (all 'driver' related stuff) doesn't seem to load correctly. IMGBurn works, haven't tried Nero 9 yet, but will look at that today. I don't know about faster/slower/benchmarks, however, I think the added desktop stuff while may take a little bit to get used to (grouping icons, disappearing windows when you select stuff in toolbar) seems much more efficient. The 'changing' desktop is pretty nice too. The UAC has a gradiant scale. IE8 seems pretty good, the new 'private' version of the browser looks promising. The 'home' sharing setup with the keycodes is pretty neat, but I haven't tried it yet. I would have to say overall, Im pretty impressed with the 'beta' so far. So for today, I am going to stick with it as my primary computer at the house and see how stable it remains. Just curious what other people like about it too. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
