I have to say I’m fairly impressed with Windows 7 thus far. There is a minor security annoyance, but much less than which Vista still annoys me. It also performs a lot better than Vista. WinXP still should hold the performance bar according to benchmarks(here, here, here), but I don’t really see it running in VMWare Fusion on Mac. Perhaps Win7 is more virtualization friendly, or is better about file access management. I don’t know. I do know Win7 has a quicker feel, and a much more pleasant UI than XP and Vista.
Well if behavior is any grade, I can say Win7 is leading in the Windows OS race. I currently have 2 Win7 vm’s, 1 WinXP vm, and 0 Vista vm’s on my Mac. That 1 XP vm was my main development vm until recently. I’ve been flipping between the 32bit and the 64bit Win7 machines since it went Release Candidate. At this point, I’m only keep XP around for legacy reasons, which should drop off not long after Win7 is RTM.
My other virtual machines are Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.04, which are both very nice themselves. They just don’t have the .Net stack and tools, so I don’t run them as much. I can use Mono in OSX so I don’t run linux very often lately.
Visual Studio and .Net has kept me on Windows. Win7 looks to be the first really good reason to run Windows other than .Net in a long while.
-j
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