It is an immense OS, it just ticks all the boxes, has no bugs, and never fails. Definate thumbs up, and most tests I've read up on say it's faster than XP for loading times and file transfers. If you're a gamer though, XP 64 bit edges it out slightly, but XP 64bit is very buggy from what I understand. Basically Windows 7 is so good I've been thinking of putting the 32bit version on my Netbook. I can get it free through uni, it's faster loading than XP and a lot of people have done it, so finding drivers isn't impossible. There are only a couple of things I don't like about it. The network connections thing is over-complicated, I liked the simplistic one in XP. The rest is amazing though, the sounds for instance are all really good, I didn't realise how annoying the ones in XP are. It loads faster. File transfers are stupidly fast, especially between internal hard drives. In short, it's so good that it's worth buying! I can get it through uni for free though, which is nice of them but if I couldn't, I'd buy it.