anybody tried windows 7 yet

[Twitchin Kitten]

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As you can see they both have a circular start button, and icons for task bar items. They're almost identical. The grouping of similar things on the task bar with pop up showing miniature versions of the program windows is also in KDE for Linux but I don't have a screenie handy as I normally run GNOME for Linux instead.

So yeah...
Microsoft steals yet another idea...

You mean they stole it from Apple. Apple has been doing that for ages.

Well, others may advise against it, but I say spend the extra money for the Ultimate edition. If you never use the extra features its a little bit of a waste, but its more wasteful to want/need one of those features and have to buy separate software to get it. Also, I'm still working it up, but I'm going to post a list of excellent free softwares over @ Skin City Designs (Twitchy's other website) in the Resources subforum of the computer help forum I moderate. Things like OpenOffice (MS Office replacement), FileZilla (FTP, better than most paid), The GIMP (Image editing, and can do 98% of what Photoshop can, but is a bit more difficult to use), and other things like that.

I tried the new Apple Imac's last night. I wanted to play with the Mac Pro but some snotty little brat was hogging the thing as if it were her personal play toy.

The whole look of W7 is very similar to the Apple's OS X.6.
Apple allows you to use Boot Camp - this is what Dylan is now doing with his Linux stuff (or was) - all I need is a disk for say, WXP, Vista or W7 and I can boot from disk any Windows Operating System on my Apple. I'm sure I can do that with that Linux as well.

No, as usual, MS ripped off Apple just like they did when Bill Gates quit work at Apple and "invented" Windows and the home pc.

I think my learning curve is going to be minimal on the Apple and the machine is very, very powerful out of the box.

The ONLY thing (contrarary to what Dylan says to me) that I don't like is that it's propriatary in repairs. Like your Ipod, you need a special tool to open it and it's only allowed to be repaired by certain authorized Apple repair shops to fix.
I think I can live with that. I'll have my old pc to back me up if I need internet access.