Better... Much better, Grimp. Lets just put it this way. I'm a techy and I put the Beta version on a partition just to check it out and 2 weeks later I deleted my other partitions because I was already sold on W7. Best OS release ever, period.
Grimp, I would say throw Vista away and buy a W7 cd ASAP, well OCT 22nd that is!!!
Vista was the "thing" they came up with while working on W7. 6 years Microsoft has been working on this OS and I can't believe how user friendly it is and I would have to say that it is the most stable OS to EVER come out of the box period.
I really hate Vista. It doesn't interface well with colleges for online schooling for my daughter and she said she when she gets a new computer she would take the older version of windows anyday. So I'm glad they came out with a more stable W7, she'll be happier too.