I have been using Windows 7 as my primary OS for about 8 months now. It is very good and stable. The best improvement is of course the new taskbar which does ma

I have been using Windows 7 as my primary OS for about 8 months now. It is very good and stable. The best improvement is of course the new taskbar which does make the process of managing your applications and open windows a lot more streamlined. That said, in the article Jeff sounds like Windows 7 is really just a slight improvement over Vista. It is just plain wrong. If you have been following the windows 7 development blog, you can see that they have put a lot of effort in the R&D of this new OS. You have to use the OS for some time to understand this. (5 minutes is not enough to form an opinion and write a lengthy blog post) I remember an article by Raymond Chen [1] where he tells the story of how they changed the inner workings of windows calculator and people never noticed it. Then they just changed the skin a little bit and praises came in pouring, about how much better the new calculator is. The original article also feels like committing the same mistake. The fact that they have polished the UI does not mean that that is the only thing they did. As an aside, I also wanted to try out Ubuntu in the past few years, but did not get time for that. The one thing I understood is that (especially for web workers) the OS you are using to develop applications never really matters. If I switched to Linux (or a mac for that matter), I'd just be wasting a lot of my time to get familiarized with the working of the new OS, with no significant upsides for switching. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/25/141253.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/25/141253....