Windows 7 RC

I got Windows 7 Release Candidate last week, and I've been trying it out a bit. I've now got it installed on 5 machines: our 3 machines at home (including the kids' PC), my work PC, and my work laptop. It's working well on all of them. Generally, a very pleasing experience: somewhat better performance than Vista (especially on my laptop, which is underpowered: Windows 7 is much, much faster than Vista). Plenty of new shiny bits.

On my work PC I upgraded from Vista, and that was an easy, but lengthy process. My home PC and the kids' PC were upgraded from Windows 7 Beta2, with the help of a change in a config file (otherwise Win 7 RC won't allow an upgrade from earlier Win 7 releases). The others were clean installs that went quite quickly.

I really like the hardware driver support: Win7 just goes out and gets the right drivers for virtually everything. Most impressive.