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I've had Windows 7 Ultimate (the official version) installed for a few weeks now and I must say its very very sweet. Installation is a little problematic though. I resisted the urge to ever go to vista (rightly so as it turns out) so I've been on XP for a while now. You can not upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 without it doing a wipe of your XP drive. That's right folks, Microsoft in their wisdom don't offer a clean upgrade path.
You could upgrade XP to vista then vista to windows 7 - but who's going to try that?
What I eventually did was grabbed 100Gb of partition space on one of my drives - I have several 1TB drives on my pc, turned that into a windows 7 drive and installed there. I also turned the machine into a dual boot - which windows 7 makes it pretty easy to do. So now I can boot into windows XP or Windows 7 and windows 7 still sees ALL my other drives and I didn't lose anything.
As an operating system, so far its the cleanest booting and fastest booting out of the Microsoft Operating systems. In fact so easy was the install I'm still looking over my shoulder wondering where all the bad experiences went...
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