Windows 7 seems to be one of the big things to talk about lately, so I’ll join in.

I’ve been using Windows 7 as my sole desktop OS at home for about 3 months. I have used a couple different builds.

Some of the things I love:

  1. So far all my applications have worked without any major issues.
  2. I love how the task bar and quick launch area were merged – it is hands down the best thing Microsoft has added to Windows.
  3. It runs great on my P4 2.8 w/ 1.5 GB of ram and shabby video card.
  4. mklink – It was there in vista, and is in Server 2008, but needless to say it rocks.

As a day-to-day OS it’s been quite good. Quicken 2008 runs fine, office 2007, my triathlon software (SRMwin, and WKO+). When I started with build 7000, I had a quite a few crashes and some issues with one driver, as well as major issues if I had any anti-virus software installed.

I upgrade to build 7048 – and it was rock solid – no issues at all. I have since upgraded to 7057, which seems to be almost a half step back from 7048 in stability, but has a little bit of new fluff as compared to 7048.

All-in-all Windows 7 is awesome, and I will likely upgrade to it once it is GA.