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I am pleasantly surprised with what is now available in Windows 7. It has a similar feel to Vista but appears to use less overhead.

All screen shots were taken on a virtual machine running Windows 7 Build 7100 RC.

Desktop:

Microsoft included Bitlocker, a tool used for full drive encryption. This tool makes it very difficult for common exploits to retrieve data through non Windows services or secondary Operating Systems.

Also included is a back-up utility with the ability to back-up to a Network Share.

You can create a full system image or just specific parts. And of course, scheduling.

And like Vista, IIS7 is available for ASP .NET developers

New to me, PowerShell 2.0. The language reminds me of c#, sorta.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx

The RC key doesn’t expire until June 10, 2010 so I don’t see this being finalized until at least 2011. I may upgrade my daily desktop shortly, it uses the about the same resources of XP Pro at idle.