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Benchmarks comparing performance of &, Vista and XP would be great to see. I guess that legitimately can't occur until 7 goes GM?

That is fine with me. I was hoping for this Friday (past) but it looks like a few days yet: Thursday (this).

so the public RC will be on  Tuesday in 2 weeks?... Here we go again. I hope they have enough bandwidth up this time.

I wonder why it takes a full week between the time that the RC leaks unoffcially and it becomes available on MSDN/Technet? I'd have to assume that they want to make sure they have all their ducks in a row before their download servers and product key generators get slammed again.

I wonder how the builds leak in the first place. Is someone at Microsoft putting it on torrent sites?

@kenmcnamee

I would guess, from my hours in offices in another era that you are correct. It takes a while for everyone to give their input, get the OKs, etc. etc and when they are planning for what might be the biggest download [or one of the biggest downloads] in Internet history, it might take a week to make sure the ducks really are in a row.

That's a good question Hamilton. What is the deal with the  Pirate bay? Didn't the owners get convicted in Sweden? Why is the site still operating?

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Ya they did get convicted. I don't know why the site is still up. I don't understand any law stuff.

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I will be looking forward to here how XP Mode performs.

The history of virtualization is that it's OK but not real great.

Hope this works Great.

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Does anybody else get the feeling that Microsoft's graphic/UI designers are hitting this UI hard with HDR?  The colours are extremely vivid, but also well balanced.

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@Paul: I'm surprise you were this late (well, kind of late) in posting the RC release date :-) It was been on the Web for about 2 days before I saw you post it.

Anyway, I'm loving the latest posts on the SuperSite. I just finished reading the Areo Theme review. It's was great! I'm hoping sites like GettyImages and Airliners.net will sell Aero Themes. That would be cool.

Good stuff dude!

@Waethorn: Yep. I'm liking the Aero (Glass) color schemes in Windows 7.

I'm not sure about the color violet (I just not a fan of purple), but in the Scenes Areo Theme the "Viololet" glass color looks nice with the backgrounds.

Has anyone noticed that "stack by" is missing from folder sort options in explorer in 7100? I hope I'm missing something.

Never mind me. Apparently it has been changed to "Arrange by" and didn't realize it in the beta.

With modern hardware,  virtualization ain't too bad. I would bet that XPM runs pretty well.

@techfan:

It's not so much the Aero colour schemes that I was talking about.  The themes all have photos that look like HDR conversions.  The Aero glass colours are just well-matched to the photos too, so it makes everything "pop" more on the screen.

BTW:  The Canada theme is really nice.

OMG NICE!

Here's a page that has the links to pics from all of the localized themes:

www.jcxp.net/.../index.php

"OMG NICE!"

Do you need a towel, fanboi?

Do you need a life losta?

losta:  inmusic.ca/.../player.aspx

@Waethorn: I see :-) My bad. I'm not familiar with that type of photography but now that you mention it, I think some of the Vista photogs used that type of photo in his Vista backgrounds. I can't remember his name though.

RE: Localized themes - I really like the Japan one: "Blossoms & Mt Fuji." It has a pinkish Glass color but still is nice.

(Hmm... I wonder if MS has a localized themes from Central America?)

Just got my dirty hands on the RC, installed and running. Strange though I can't seem to activzte the copy using my old beta key.

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From other post. My brother, a teacher also agrees with you Mike. Although he's a lot more sarcastic.

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just got mine activated. This copy seems genuine enough. Don't know if it is the RC that will be released next week though. But the build is as per Paul's post a few days ago.

@techfan:

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 supports HDR and RAW processing (certain RAW formats only - there are more than 200 available formats for RAW).  It does a very good job too.  For a program that's under $100, it's well worth it.  Of course, it could double as a cheap Photoshop alternative.  It's a very capable replacement.

http://www.paintshoppro.com

There's also a really nice program called Photomatix that is designed specifically for HDR photo production.  If you happen to have a digital point-and-shoot with multi-bracketing (Casio cameras usually do) you can make some amazing pics with Photomatix.  It also does RAW processing and can give you options to give you a similar output as merging multiple exposures.

http://www.hdrsoft.com

The gallery on the Photomatix site has some shots that look nearly identical to the type that are in Windows 7.

http://www.hdrsoft.com/gallery/gallery.php?id=5&gid=0

I'd like to see this kind of image processing in HD consumer camcorders.  Imagine the video quality you could get with your home movies....

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