Thanks to Microsoft fluffing the deployment, Windows 7 only became available properly last night (Saturday night) making it much easier for me to nab one of the 2.5 million licenses being made available in the next two weeks. The MS servers crashed at the official release time and they deployed an Akamai delivery network that seemed stable for my download last night.
So far, a much simpler installation, and better hardware support than Windows Vista had… It will be a pain to manage the process when the beta expires.
Although IE 8 seems to suck as much as IE 7 at the moment. WordPress doesn’t seem to render properly…