When the final release hit I picked up a student discounted copy, and have been using it since. Good OS.
That was not the point of the article. The FSF is not criticizing Win7 for technical shortcomings, nor do they emphasize on the closed source part. The point is that Microsoft does not respect your ownership of the computer and uses every trick in the book to drive competition out of business.
The refund policy mentioned above was something that was fought for in court in the 90s and Microsoft isn´t particulary supportive to resellers that try to keep Linux as an alternative. When governments decide to go Linux there often only a short delay, before somebody at M$ will make a visit and try to reverse the decision by promising this or that.
I am not saying that Apple wouldn´t do the same things, but they weren´t in the position until recently. So they had to play more open and fair, because they needed support from OSS.
