I got my new laptop computer with Win7 Home Premium on it on Friday, and obviously have been sitting in front of it ever since. Having been forced to experience the horrors of Vista through my stationary computer at work, I was expecting Win7 to work better than Vista, but not to be without quirks and irritations for the first-time user.
Boy was I wrong. After spending over 40 hours with the OS over the weekend, doing all kinds of arcane stuff, I have never once really been stuck trying to find something, there hasn't been a single problem, crash, or heck, even slight litte issues like your icons deciding to rearrange for no coherent reason.
I've got loads of games, GoG games, Steam games, and real-life shelf games. None of them were designed with Win7 in mind. All of them work completely flawlessly. Again; not a single in-game crash, in any game I've played so far. Mind you, I haven't played more than a couple of hours of each, but it's still looking good. In addition, the games explorer part is a nice "snack", it even compares my system specs to the recommended settings of the games automatically, and seems to have a rather large database.
I'm happy to see the update process, which was one of the more major quirks of XP and Vista (and causing numerous system crashes for me over the years), completely overhauled. There is now a distinction between important and not-so-important updates, and you can even choose not to download them! Awesome is the word here.
Thumbs up for M$ this time around, really. Win7 is their very very best to date.

Yeah I have to say that I was dead impressed in the 6 hours I got to use it before my lappy exploded

Agreed. Microsoft getting something right for once may sound too good to be true, but it's definitely what they've done here. No crashes here, and the only problem I have with it is that to repair an install you must be logged into 7 first, and I had a reboot loop thing going on (turned out to be the motherboard or something).

I'll say this: Windows 7 is the first version of Windows I've ever thought worthy of paying money for, and I've used them all (either for realz or for lulz - extensive use being limited to 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and now 7, the others only in virtual machines or on older machines that have never been a main).
I'll get another x64 copy to replace the RC on my desktop sometime before it timebombs in march, the one I currently have sits on the laptop. Should have gotten two when I had the chance of buying them for half the price instead of only one, oh well.

Huh?

You can access the repair tools from the DVD or by hitting F8 during boot. You will be asked to choose an account; choosing an admin account will give you access to more repair tools than a standard account will.
EDIT: another option is to boot into safe mode (which has a decent chance of working even if normal booting doesn't) and launch the repair tools from there.

The only reason I got it was to get it while it was cheap then keep a hold of it until I needed to switch. I had very little hope that MS would get it so right. But they have. I have only gone back to XP to install some Steam backups and that's it.
Windows 7 is pretty impressively stable and fast. Especially the 64bit OS.

Windows 7 is now my bread and butter. If I'm forced to get a Mac, I will only touch their OS as long as it takes in order to install 7.They can pry 7 from my cold, dead hands.