polly, not necessarily mate no it does a lot of things "smarter" and definately has a faster UI. Ive been running W7 for a few months now and it does obviously get bogged down with stuff as youd expect but its definately better berforming that Vista

johnny, we're kinda the same mate, a thought of deploing vista on our desktop estate was just incomprehensible! but W7? Hell yeah we're gonna have to give that a proper look! the major reason for this IMHO is XP Mode.