It IS Vista. Vista SP. :-)
I pre-ordered it after running the beta and the release candidates all summer, both 32 bit and 64 bit.
Both are smooth and nice. Lighter memory footprint, and on my gaming system, it seemed to run better. I can’t quantify that with numbers, just how it felt.
It’s better than XP. I love it. It’s enough to slow down my experimenting with Linux distributions.
I’ve got a little netbook that was out of my control for a while and its OS is now trashed. Had XP on it and I’m thinking of just reformating the root drive and installing “7” fresh as a full install. I’m afraid there is registry and root kit demons in it now.
Is that something that a non-techie can work his way through?