I've noticed that there is an amazing onalaught of Mac commercials on TV recently, and I was wondering why.  Then I realized that they as well are gearing up for the release of Windows 7.  Why would they do this?  Plain and simple..

THEY'RE SCARED.

And you know what?  THEY SHOULD BE.

We just uploaded the beta last week on a brand new machine, as well has running it on a MAC in VMWare, and here's what we found:

1. Installation is much simpler and much faster.  It went faster, it was easier, and it went quicker.  No driver conflicts, no program errors. Flawless
2. The taskbar has been redesigned.  Yes, a bit more "Mac-Like" you can pin programs in the taskbar much like you can save a program in the dock on the Mac.  It shows what is in the tabbed content on browsers, making navigating between windows seamless and easy.  We love it.
3. You can't cook breakfast during bootup.  You got it, Windows 7 boots up like a champ.  No more will you fire up the computer, go brew yourself a cup of morning joe, nuke a bagel, and then return, only to find your computer just finishing the bootup sequence. 
4. This OS is fast.  When we got a Vista machine a few years back with only 2 gb of RAM in it, we were shocked at how slow it ran.  It needs a minimum of 3 gb to run well on most anything.  With Windows 7?  It's lightning quick on even a single processor machine with only 2 bg of RAM.  Amazing.
5. This OS is easy to use.  If you're an XP or Vista owner, no prob.  I must say that it has more of a feel of XP to it than Vista.  Most everything is in a nice, familiar place.

Does it do *a lot more* than XP or Vista.  No.  I must say, OS's are definitely overrated.  About a year ago, I had an older machine lying around the house.  It was about 5 years old (an antique by todays standards) with a single core P4 processor, AMD.  I decided to load up Windows 98, which, by the way, was truly one of the best OS's on the plant for a long time.  How did it perform?  AMAZINGLY WELL.  LIGHTNING QUICK.  And you know what, it made me realize how *little* a new OS actually gets you.  It surfed the net well, it runs Microsoft Word, Publisher, and an old version of Adobe.  What else does one REALLY need????  So yes, Windows 7 is amazing, but truly, it's an awful lot like Vista, which is a lot like XP, which is a lot like Windows 98, which was much like Windos 95.