My experiences with Win7 so far have been much more favorable than Vista. I currently have it loaded on an old 1.0 GHz celeron laptop with only 512 meg of RAM and it's actually usable. It may not be fast but it is faster than my wife's newer laptop (not exactly sure of GHz ) that has 2 gig of ram. Even after removing most of the crap the vendor preloads on the laptops, hers still consumes over a gig just booting up while the Win7 one is sitting at a little over 300 meg. Regards, Scott DeLagrange CIBA VISION Corporation IT Global Supply Chain Applications CIBA VISION Corporation 11460 Johns Creek Parkway Johns Creek, GA 30097 "Doug Rooney" <Doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 07/28/2009 01:21 PM Please respond to thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [THIN] Re: VDI - Windows 7 ?Bells and Whistles? this that MS speak for crap and sludge? Thank You ~Doug Rooney Sonoma Tilemakers IT Manager 7750 Bell Rd. Windsor Ca, 95492 (707) 837-8177 X211 (707) 837-9472 FAX it@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:23 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: VDI - Windows 7 Bad news, Windows 7 is basically Vista with more bells and Whistles. Jim Kenzig Blog: http://www.techblink.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/kenzig On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Nick Smith <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: One of the things holding us back from a full-throated VDI deployment was a feeling that if we deployed XP we were going to be investing in a ?moving-towards-redundant? way, while if we deployed Vista virtual PCs our available RAM was going to vanish fast. Has anyone started deploying Windows 7 in either test or production? Error! Filename not specified. SUBJECT TO CONTRACT