"puzzling because Windows 7 is one of the few Microsoft products that actually is somewhat fresh and not just a minor version bump" Interesting... granted I do

"puzzling because Windows 7 is one of the few Microsoft products that actually is somewhat fresh and not just a minor version bump" Interesting... granted I don't particularly follow Windows development, but my perception was that it is exactly that - a minor version bump over Vista fixing the problems that shouldn't have been there in the first place...