Spiffocracy

I could have sworn I had one of these for vista, but alas, it must have been deleted somewhere.

So I think I will write down my first impressions on 7, and when I actually start using it will compare on how far that went.

Firstly, I think this is the OS that windows Vista SHOULD have been, the beta version worked incredibly well. I love the new task bar icon doc thing. All I ever look at are the little icons anway, so collapsing everything into little squares with a picture works really well for me.

After installing it, I didn't really have to install any drivers either, with the exception of my video card, but that's just because I wanted to make 100% sure I had the newest versions since I do alot of gaming, and have had problems with that in the past. But if this was a work computer, I would have been done with the install after it rebooted, no more mess with installing missing network / video drivers.

I like the look of it too, although I personally don't think it lets you make it black enough, but thats just me.

The account access control bit is still a bit annoying, but no where near as annoying as it is in Vista, and in general only comes up when I'm installing something, which is ok I think. I suppose having a mechanism that prompts you whenever something needs to be installed helps prevent anything unintended from getting in there.

Overall, I installed it and it worked, which is more than I can say for XP and Vista, so once this actually gets released, I think I'll use it as my main OS for gaming.