It is actually much better than VISTA except for the DRM which is even worse.
DRM is why I won't buy Vista. Not that I want to steal content, but if they want me to pay for a product, it needs to be developed to meet my interests AND NO ONE ELSE'S. And then there's the hardware theft. All those hard drive sectors, bytes of RAM, and CPU cycles, the hardware for which and the power to run which I PAID FOR!!! and which they're willing to sacrifice for the benefit of third parties not a part of the transaction to buy the software. They shouldn't expect to steal from me, call it "Rights Management", as if my rights needed managing, and still expect me to line up pay them for it.
What does the DRM under Vista/7 stop me from doing?
I like some of the new 7 features, but no way will I upgrade until they can prove to me their DRACONIAN DRM WON’T CRIPPLE MY ABILITY TO USE ***MY*** MACHINE.
It is MY machine. It is only THEIR operating system.
Not talking about doing anything illegal here, just copy a DVD for backup reasons etc.
From what I hear, 7 will be horrible and prevent you from basically doing anything Microsoft does not approve.
I dont know what you guys are doing, but I havent had any DRM issues with Vista, I am even using it to run a Home Theater PC. of course I am not trying to record a show a HBO(dont have any premuim movie channels) but I do rip dvd’s and store them on my hugemongus(soon to be tiny) 1t harddrive.