I've been running Win7 RC on my laptop, and I have NEVER had an issue with it. I am seriously thinking about putting it on my netbook as well. I also have the RC running on this computer, dual boot with Vista, and on another computer as well. All instances are rock solid stable.

As to getting the M-Audio drivers running, I found that you could run the driver installer in Vista compatibility mode...right click the setup.exe icon, select properties, go to the compatibility tab, select Vista and click ok. Then, run the installer. It works fine. The only reason I haven't switched entirely to Win 7 on this computer is we're two weeks away from release, and I'm going to have to move the RC off this computer when I do, so I'll just upgrade Vista.

For Windows XP users, you are going to have more of an issue as Win 7 will not do a direct upgrade from XP. What idiot at MS thought of that, I have no clue, but it's a sure way to shoot yourself in the foot. You also can not do an upgrade from ANY 32 bit version to a 64 bit version. So, even if you have a 64 bit processor in your computer, and you're running a 32 bit version of Vista, you'll need to do a new install. Upgrading from XP to any version of Win 7 will require a clean install, so you'll be re-installing all of your programs. Also, if you're running the RC, you'll have to do the same thing, so I'm going to have to completely redo my laptop.

However, I have been very happy with Win 7 RC, and will be ordering my copies very soon.

Gary

I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!