I've heard and read a lot about people seeing Windows 7 as more of a service pack and one person I know who uses/likes Vista thought it was "ugly". Myself, I m

I've heard and read a lot about people seeing Windows 7 as more of a service pack and one person I know who uses/likes Vista thought it was "ugly". Myself, I missed Vista entirely and given the chance to easily try 7 for free (legally), I plopped it down alongside Ubuntu 8.10 on my aging ThinkPad T60p. And honestly it impressed me, seeming to be the right fixes in the right places from XP and giving me few problems to speak of. I used it as a development workstation on an in-house programming contract and joined the domain without a hitch. At the same time IE8 did irritate me often with poorly rendered pages, slow performance, and many a crash. I also had problems with suspend not UNsuspending, but then Ubuntu did that too which makes me think it was a hardware thing. Now recently I got a T400 with Vista Business SP1 and have immediately felt the pain of usage and now I also see the UAC annoyances which I hadn't noticed in 7. It has had problems interacting with the domain, and just feels heavier. Admittedly it's a factory install whereas 7 was fresh, so I know part of my issues are going to be due to that. Still, I've been seriously considering replacing Vista with the beta so I don't have to figure out why this or that isn't doing what I want. Um ... so, yeah, write me up as one of those beta users who liked it.