I have both the 32b and 64b iso's and keys.  Not sure if I am gonna try it as I want to try it on a machine that I don't care about.  And that isn't gonna happen until after the 150 as well.

It's Vista... with a new taskbar and lots of tweaks.  Thus the .1 bump in version number rather than a major revision.  The new taskbar annoys me because of how it is difficult to tell which apps are running and which aren't.  The little borders around running apps simply aren't enough when just glancing.  I actually would almost prefer a similar little X on on the button somewhere to allow you to close it with a single click... the X's presence would also indicate the app is running and not currently just a shortcut.

Otherwise, just browing around, it's the same as Vista.  The network Control Panel is just as horrible as it is in Vista.  And except for minor performance tweaks, it is still as slow as Vista.

If they don't provide a free update to Vista Ultimate customers, i will be seriously disappointed.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/22/03TC-windows-multicore_1.html

"Regardless of how you slice the numbers, Windows 7 and Vista remain birds of a feather and clearly a very different species of animal from Windows XP. You can see this divergence in the overall execution path complexity for Windows 7. Like Vista, this new Windows chews up a lot more CPU cycles per transaction loop than XP -- from 39 to 68 percent more on dual-core and from 19 to 51 percent more on quad-core (the lower figures in each case representing the workflow workload, and the higher figures the database workload). Any illusions about Windows 7 somehow being leaner or more efficient than Vista can now be thrown out the window, right along with the infamous "new kernel" myth and related rumors and misconceptions."