Living with Windows 7

So I finally took the plunge and installed Windows 7 RC as the operating system on my main computer. The verdict? Fantastic! Obviously there are a lot of things to get used to, but overall it is very good.

I imaged my drives and reformatted the C: drive, did a clean install and then set about re-installing drivers and software. Not too painful on the whole and it was the perfect opportunity to clear out the junk I never used.

Good Points
*Taskbar previews of running programs
*Aero snap-to when using 2 windows (brilliant!)
*Ultra quick startup and shutdown
*One click shutdown

Bad Points
*ATI Radeon graphics card only went to 1024 x 768 resolution. Swapped to a cheap NVidia model and immediately got 1280 x 1024
*A couple of programs (Terrapin FTP and Quicken accounts) play up under Windows 7 - Terrapin just won't work, Quicken doean't always behave. Not really surprising as they were both written around the time of Win 98. Alternatives are easy to come by so not a big deal
*Ctrl + Alt + Del brings up a menu to start Task Manager. There is probably a way to cause that key combination to start Task Manager immediately, I just haven't found it yet.
*Firefox uses too many resources (up to 90% CPU and 100,000MB+ memory. This is my only big niggle but I'm working on it.

So overall I'm really pleased with it - Microsoft certainly have a winner here!