Darl? Is that you?

"If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

I'm certainly not a MS-fanboy (ArchLinux!), but I'm excited about Win7. It runs much, much faster on my single-core P4 machine than Vista and so far everything just works -- games run flawlessly in 7 and they didn't in Vista. The only thing I can't get working so far is Cygwin.

Agreed! It's much better than stealing the focus from my current app.

But something tells me we haven't seen the end of apps stealing focus. I wish that was a setting you could enable ("never steal focus"). TweakUI doesn't run on Vista or 7, and it didn't really work on XP on a domain -- it kept resetting itself somehow.

Yeah, the infamous Green-Bar-of-Death.

It's a nice idea, but I occasionally run into folders where the green bar reaches the end of the bar (signifying completion) but it never really quits. I usually see this when I try to access a folder that I don't have rights to, Vista asks me and elevates to give me permission and then starts loading the file contents. But I've also seen it fail on large folders, so there are still bugs in the system.

I dunno, BOB was kinda cool. :)

Search them for paper! And bring me a rock!

Awesome! Simply awesome! Wish I had mod points.

Gilmoure, the song is Bike from piper at the gates of dawn album.

That would be nice; I'd forgotten about that.

Although I was a beta-tester for Vista, submitted several bugs and never got a free copy. Didn't really bother me; I was able to get Vista Ultimate for $33 through our campus agreement.

Still feel like I overpayed, though.... :)

That's not a bug, it's a feature! :)

I don't think you can make the Start Menu button (pearl, whatever) smaller. It's designed to overlap the small taskbar like it does in Vista. I actually like this look, except it's a little broken in 7. Move the small taskbar to the top of the screen and the button's bottom is cut-off, not rounded. :)

I actually really like 7; it's been very stable with no major bugs to report (except the Installshield bug). It runs much faster than Vista and all of my games works on it flawlessly, something I could never get Vista to do.