Windows "7"

[Tripitaka]

I must admit Windows 7 has been rather handy for me. I've been with it since the beta, now on RC. Consider this; My system uses 2 NVidia 7900GTO cards in an SLI setup with an AMD 4200 X2. Under Vista I'm limited to DX9 due to my cards. Under 7 I use DX11, the bits my GPU's can't do my CPU does instead. Now GFX cards are working at full steam but  CPU (that rarely ran at more than 50%) is working harder too.
Fallout 3 never looked so good.
It's still a huge lump of bloat with far too much nannying but that's windows for you.

[Tripitaka]

To be fair Win7 has some nice features but let's not forget it's still huge, full of nannying and hides options in obscure places, splatters DLLs all over your harddrive and eats resources. In short, it's still Windows. To the credit of Apple, at least they have been trying to trim the resource footprint of MacOS. MS could do with following suite.
I agree with the comment on 64bit being a missed chance for MS to go this direction. Let's face it, over 200Mb for a driver!  That's insane.