Then why are you getting W7? W7 is pretty much just a Vista service pack, in a new box. See Windows Mojave.
Yeah, they say that, but there really is a difference that I can tell. By this time with Windows Vista, I had gotten to the point where I was almost ready to swear it off. I had all sorts of problems running City of Heroes, problems that I'm not getting now. Well, except that the UAC still dings me whenever I try to run it.
Still, so far it has been stable, and I can actually take screenshots now.
And other stuff has been working similarly well so far, not nearly the pain and anguish I experienced with Vista. I suppose you could argue that developers have gotten used to the New Way of Doing Things by now, and by extension, Win 7 : Vista as Win XP : Win 2000, and maybe you're right. Still, it doesn't change the fact that it
is a much better experience.
Although, don't get me wrong. I'm sure I'll still find fault with stuff. So far, the UAC on CoH launch is irritating. Also, my G15 keyboard LCD is pretty much useless; the LCD clock app that is supposed to come with it apparently just plain doesn't work. And they kept that stupid filesystem layout with the Program Files (x64) stuff. Those are minor annoyances, though, and mitigated by the fact that stuff actually works so far, something I couldn't say with Vista.
On the bright side, there have been a few surprises. This morning when I went into my office, the machine was off. At first, that irritated me because I don't like waiting for my machine to wake up out of sleep mode. I hit the power button, and I swear to god within two seconds or so, it was
on. Bam! Just like that. A lot like my MacBook, in fact. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm going to leave the drop-into-sleep-mode setting on and save a few bucks on my power bill. And the whole "pin my apps to the taskbar" thing is cool, too. It's about time that PCs caught up to the Mac in that arena too, whose dock has been doing that for ages. And I honestly don't remember if Vista does this (I don't think it does), but the ability to customize how system tray icons show up is actually pretty ingenious. (And something, I daresay, the Mac--gasp!--
doesn't do!)