First off, where are they getting “7” from? Are we following the NT path or the 95/98/ME path?
Secondly, I’m looking at the demo and all I can see is a bunch of multi-touch stuff bolted onto Vista. The kind of thing that’s going to require tons of RAM, a high-end graphics card, a bucket of VRAM, the latest multicore CPU and a whole new touch-sensitive monitor. It looks like they’re trying to implement that multi-thousand dollar touchscreen table on a PC.
Thirdly, what is the point? I’ll tell you the point: to try to get your attention with something shiny for a year and a half (as if they’re ever going to deliver an OS on time) while distracting you from the fact that Vista is the worst steaming pile that Microsoft has shipped since Microsoft BOB. Or maybe since Word 6 for Macintosh. I’ll tell you one thing: I have run Vista on Parallels and VMWare Fusion, and I have run XP on both, and there are absolutely no circumstances under which I would choose Vista over XP. In fact, there are no circumstances under which I would take Vista over Ubuntu., because for what I do, I’m pretty confident I can find a Linux equivalent for everything except maybe iTunes.
Naturally, you can have my MacBook when you…actually, I’ve got it booby-trapped with a wipe-script and a half-pound of Semtex, so if you want to try to pry it from my cold dead hands? Buy the ticket, take the ride.