A public beta of Windows 7 has just begun until the 1st of August 2009, you can pick up the beta for free if you can manage to grab one of the CD Keys. Anyone looking to do this must remember that this is a Beta product and can have a few issues. I downloaded it the other day and installed into onto one of my spare hard drives and was presently impressed in how well it ran so I thought to actually use the beta I would upgrade my version of Vista to Windows 7 beta. I read a website saying it took them 16mins to upgrade from vista SP1 to Windows 7 Beta... Well It took me around 3-4 hours! Saying that I have around 400GB of data on this drive but still it took a fair amount of time to upgrade. After the upgrade had completed everything seems to be running fine apart from it uninstalled demon tools (guessing driver issues) and Google Chrome didn't work, this is something to do with 64 Bit and you can easily fix it by adding this code to your shortcut:

C:\Users\Maxi\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --in-process-plugins

Apart from that everything has been working fine and all my programs/games are still working since the upgrade, I will keep you updated and maybe write some articles on the new features.