http://blogs.technet.com/b/wardpond/archive/2009/10/22/windows-7-now-available.aspxYou might have heard about this somewhere else.. but Windows 7 was launched today . I recently got an upgraded laptop from my employer, upon which I installed Windows 7. Both the machine and the software are quite remarkable. First, the machineen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/wardpond/archive/2009/10/22/windows-7-now-available.aspx#3289175Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:56:41 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3289175aspiringgeek<p>Holy correlated wait stats--some of the servers I tune have less resources than your notebook.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3289175" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/wardpond/archive/2009/10/22/windows-7-now-available.aspx#3288908Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:43:54 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3288908WardPond<p>@Adam: I don't doubt that you're right; we have several multi-instance setups in our labs at work running on various flavors of Win Server, and it's a very un-Vista-like experience.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3288908" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/wardpond/archive/2009/10/22/windows-7-now-available.aspx#3288788Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:48:54 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3288788Adam Machanic<p>I was previously running Server 2008 as my desktop OS, and have now upgraded to R2, which was supposed to have the same &quot;lightweightness&quot; as Windows 7. I've noticed no difference at all, except for UI tweaks. Not that I had much of a problem anyway--I switched to Server 2008 because Vista was so heavy and found that the Server OS was lighter on my laptop from the outset.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3288788" width="1" height="1">