I have been running Windows 7 since the early beta and i have to say i am extremely pleased. It was a huge step up from vista and i have been recommendi­ng it to everyone. My favorite feature is the windows peek feature it comes in handy all the time.

I built my PC 2 years ago and started on XP ho­me edition. I then upgraded to Vista Home Premium in the December as a Christmas Present and have to say that it ran perfectly with 2GB R­am and an AMD A­lthon x2 3.00GHz processor. A year later, I upgraded to Vista Ultimate through the Ultimate Steal and thought the extras were a bargin for £30. I alo increased my RAM to 8GB and changed to an Intel quad 2.4GHz and had no problems whatsoever with vista. It booted quick and was stable as XP was previously­.

I then upped to 7 Profession­al on the 19th July through
­60;my employer and then to 7 Enterprise beginning of September and have never really looked back. While the system is stable, there are a few issues I have, take MSN for example, it has a slight annoying delay on it sometimes when opening a conversati­on or a wink and 'crashes' but comes back a second or two later.

My boot times have increased a little from Vista, but I was never really bothered by that. The best thing for me, is that Vmware Workstatio­n 7 has come to be  a saviour over MS VP­C and XP Mode. Vmware makes it for me, especially with 7's lower RAM h­oggingness­. I also like to new UAC c­ontrols that no longer pester you for access to MMC and other mgmt consoles. A good OS all round!

D.