In case you missed it yesterday, Microsoft made available the Windows 7 Release Candidate for public consumption. What this means for you is you can go and download, install and test drive Windows 7 until June 2010. 

I have been using it since February.  I even did my Keynote demonstrations at Global Energy Forum and OSI's User conference using Windows 7.  I have been very happy with it so far.  Here are a few quick things you should look at:

For personal use:

• Home Group - Better organization of your personal media across multiple home computers
• Libraries - Better organization of all your documents
• Desktop personalization - I like how you can have a Theme with multiple background images.  The images rotate during the day

For work:

• Faster and better 64 bit - People who have adopted the 64 bit OS are starting to see faster and more scalable software.  Best example I have seen so far in Oil and Gas is Schumberger's 64 Bit Petrel.
• The new Taskbar

There is a lot more I could say about quicker and snappier but really it may be more interesting for you to take a test drive and tell me what you think

Chris Van Dyke