I respect your opinion, certainly, and with most Microsoft products, that would be a good bet. Windows 7 has been proven to be better than XP and Vista already though, even before its release. I have been running the RTM version (which is still a beta) for months on both my Vista-born laptop (64-bit) and my XP laptop (32-bit) with virtually no hiccups or problems. In fact, my XP machine barely makes the minimum requirements for Windows 7 and actually runs better than it did on XP. Unless Microsoft has done something wonky to screw it all up in the past few months since the RTM version went public, it should meet the expectations or surpass them.

This is more than just media hype — it’s a Microsoft OS that is stable on release day! How big a milestone is -that-??