It's all a silly misunderstanding, we tell you. Microsoft has been holding fast to its "three years" development time frame for Windows 7 since forever, the problem is that it's never been clear when that three year period started. Well wonder no longer, Microsoft has finally officially confirmed that the three years started at Windows Vista's general availability release, which was January 30th, 2007. Obviously that doesn't mean will have Windows 7 on midnight of January 30th, 2010, but it does mean we can look forward to sometime within that year for a release. Microsoft plans to give an exact release date only once Windows 7 "meets its quality bar for release." Sounds like a good metric to go by, if you ask us.

I hear Vista is horrible; could it be like Windows Me which was lousy and then XP came after? Who know; I'm still on XP Pro and haven't made the switch.

Vista is buggy but it is far from horrible. I bounce back and forth between XP and Vista on some computers at my office and definitely prefer Vista.

I stuck to Win 2000 forever, then got a new laptop with Vista and I've gotta say; it isn't half bad,

I tried the beta version and loved the look. I'm being told by many web/computer guys of how it has glitches. So if you guys like it, I may give it a try.

Moe.. I've heard the same things. I'm still running XP Professional, and can't gather the balls to switch.

I'll give it a little more time, or wait until I pick up my next machine.

One of my office PC's has Vista, and it works, but is a serious power hog. It's on a crappy little HP and it is SLOOOOOOWWW. Don't even think of getting it without a top of the line system. I still have XP on both of my home PC's, and have no desire to switch. I prefer to let others be the guinea pigs and figure out any issues, and will likely get Vista on my next PC (not this year).

cire 2 duo or better
2gb or better

and it works just fine...much nicer than XP at this point in time (not so last year, agreed)