I can only agree with others on the internet about the quality of the first beta of Windows 7. It’s pretty stable, it performs better than Windows Vista and it’s got some great new features. I had a harddisk-crash last week and made the bold decision to install the Windows 7 beta instead of Windows Vista. I ran into a couple of minor issues, but overall I’m impressed with the quality of it. Since the driver model did not change between Vista and Windows 7, all drivers should work just fine. And in my case they did. So, I’m happy with it. Especially with the new slider to control the UAC settings. ;-)