> It's funny, because Vista shipped a ton of great features, that then got attributed to Win7

I have heard that some people at Microsoft consider Vista a kind of public Beta for Windows 7. Maybe not intentionally, but that is the way things worked out on the road from XP to 7.

And Windows 7 is, as far as Windows systems go, very nice. Very stable, decent performance on not-too-old hardware, I like the UI very much.