So who picked it up?
I'll admit I did, and it's incredible.
My system was new in Sept. '07 (AMD dual core 5600+ @ 2.8 Ghz, 2gb ram, 256mb Nvidia 8600GT) and while I liked Vista at first I grew to hate it over time due to the fact it's a resource hog.
My system ran slow, was slow to load programs and multi-tasking often led to problems... so I dropped $120 on the Win7 upgrade the other night, backed up my data, wiped the harddrive and installed it.
I'm in love... or shall I say my PC is. From bootup to shutdown and everything in between, the PC is a LOT faster. I can click on Word or Excel and they will load the instant I click the icon. It's using about 35% less resources than Vista did and it's definitely noticeable.
It's full of new tweaks and it's a bit easier to access things now IMHO. The UAC from Vista has also been tweaked and there are now much less annoying popups.
It's basically an upgraded Vista and it's what Vista should have been to begin with... at any rate, IMHO Vista was NOT a worthy successor to XP, but Windows 7 is.