so i got windows 7 pro 64 bit edition and i have been using it a full day now and holy shit wow! DECENT,. finally decent. i've been using vista for two months now, i thought it was fine but it was too laggy and coundnt do multible things at once.for programming this is savage.. a straight conversion to binary and there are other modes like conversions. Paint and word pad have been given the new ribbon interface and it works well and this seems to be the way microsoft is headin with their interfaces which is awesome cause i spent all last year learning the in's and out's of 2003 edition of MS word and now everything id in a new place.

It is really fast OS and i like the new taskbar, you hover over an icon and it will give you a preview, click and drag up it gives you recent or common tasks, everything is just more sensibly placed. i had a scare installing tho because it said i entered an invalid produst code but that was just my mistake...all good now

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now i have been using 7 for a nearly a week now and i got the blue screen :-O

i really dont mind. it was the first one i ever got, but it is working great still. i did a few registary tweaks and everything is still good

OK it is obvious that 7 is better than vista but i think that it is a bit better than XP. Simply design, great use of list, aero is smooth, rarely lags, hurray