Personally I don't think its anything like its hyped up to be.
Its just vista with some minor tweaks. Only reason you'd get it in my opinion is if you have a computer that barley runs vista and u want something less demanding but not XP.
I didn't like the button style taskbar when KDE did it 2 years ago (Linux) and i DON'T LIKE IT NOW. You loose the ability to use dream scene and cant quickly right click and move 1 pixel up/right to close things on the taskbar.
In terms of stability / compatibility there aren't any problems with vista now that wont be made worse on 7.
Vista had a bad launch and was slated for it through its whole life. In my opinion 7 is just vista re branded with very slight changes, but very noticeable so the general public sees its different and doesn't think they're paying for nothing.
I'm not denying its less resource hungry, but these days you've got a damn shit computer if it cant handle vista... and if your computer can, I cant see any good reason to change.
EDIT: Also note I can get it for free legally and would torrent it if i wanted it so i'm not bitching because its expensive.
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