So I've installed the beta of Windows 7 Ultimate on a virtual machine. Thoughts so far? Pretty nice, a definite improvement over Vista. There are a few benchmarks out there on the web that indicate its faster than Vista in almost every respect and faster than XP in most. For the savvy, I'd recommend downloading the beta and playing around with it. Microsoft opened the beta yesterday (9 Jan 08) and said they'd only offer 2.5 million downloads. Unsurprisingly, it was impossible to get yesterday... read more
