There is a rush to buy it and the shops have been open from midnight. It is being sold at 20.00 off the price until Christmas.
My stars warned me travel was a bad idea today so I just stayed at home. 
, anyway I only just got XP sort-of-working on the PC-that-Furby-put-together-from-the leftover-bits-of-dead-Pcs.
Do you think every other Windows works?
e.g. Windows 98 worked, Windows ME was horrible, Windows Xp worked, Windows Vista was horrible.
Strangely, Creature has had very little trouble with Vista Home Premium.
All that happens is that, occasionally, IE freezes. Vista eventually gives him the option of turning IE off and when he reloads IE he gets the options of either going to back to where he was or going to his home page.
Maybe it is because Creature doesn't try to do very much with Vista.
Anyway, by the time Creature stops Work it may be time to buy another PC and then he will have Windows 7 with most of the bugs ironed out.
Wergh.
I am curious about Windows 7. As Furby says we are due for a good one. I think OC that you have hit on it with waiting til the bugs are ironed out. What we want is the Windows 7 Service pack 2 version.
Come to think of it I'm not sure we have the option anyway. Vista was supposed to demand a certain level of hardware that most people didn't have at the time. Perhaps my PC wouldn't measure up to Windows 7 standards.
I downloaded and run the Windows 7 Compatibility Advisor which checks if your PC is good enough for this new OS.
Bearing in mind it's supposed to use less resources it will not run properly on my 512mb of ram, but wants 1gb.
14gb of free space on C: is not enough as it requires 16gb (not sure if that applies to a fresh install which is what I'd actually do)
The built in graphics adaptor won't handle AERO, but I wouldn't care about that. However the following built in hardware will not work unless I can get new drivers which is possible in some cases, but not certain.
Modem
Network adaptor
Graphics
Audio
It also tells me that I'd need to remove a couple of my applications.
It insists that I upgrade the Microsoft keyboard software. The reason I'm using an old one is that the later ones didn't work right. I don't want bells and whistles, I want it to work. Also I customised some things to get around the stupid and appropriately named F Key.
I'd have to give up Outlook Express which I am used to. I could use Windows Mail (though I've not heard anything good about it) or a third party one, but have no real interest in email clients. It's the email I care about and I just want to get it with no fuss.
What would I get in return? Well some pretty icons for a start.
Then there is ... well.. um.. the best thing I have heard so far is that it's a relief after using Vista, but I'm not using Vista.
On the TV news they are showing that Windows 7 has touch screen controls. So you could have touch screen controls for the pretty icons.
I want to hide behind the sofa at the thought of using touch screen controls but I am a dinosaur.
Strange about Outlook Express having to be given up I would think a lot of people are used to that as it was just there with the PC, although I don't use it much now but only as my emails won't work with it.
I too think Creature is right about waiting and also buying a new PC with the ironed version on. Is SP2 always the ironed version?
"Is SP2 always the ironed version?" Well maybe not always, but I think it worked out that way for XP.
I wonder what a touch screen costs? it might be a good idea anyway since presumably those must be washable without breaking them.