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It's fine. I was put off by Vista and stuck with XP at home, but after months of running the RC there are no signs of performance degradation. I've had one crash in all that time and I wish it would pop up a little bubble to inform me when the Wi-fi has died, rather than waiting for me to realize my pages aren't loading before looking at the screen. Otherwise I am a happy user.

My only real gripe is that it's expensive and I've gotten used to running the super mega ultimate edition or whatever it's called. It's just an OS, sell it for $99 and have done with it instead of pointless market segmentation which drives people to the torrents. You'll note that these criticisms are all to do with corporate rather than technical.

It still needs a good defrag once in a while.

Every release of windows ever has doubled the system requirements. Except this one.

So it should (depending on OEM crapware, etc) be a bit snappier.

The RC has been out for a few months now, and that problem hasn't shown up. The Beta has been out for almost a year now, and that problem has not shown up.