When is Windows 7 coming out?

I think a lot of people have short memories. When XP was first released, it was far from a bed of roses. I had a workmate and a friend who both purchased new computors just after XP was released and as they were both a wee bit tending towards computer illiteracy, they asked me to setup their new computors. I ran into all sorts of problems with the then new XP operating system and I know of heaps more people who had problems with it initially. I managed to get both of the computers I setup running sweet, then about three months later, purchased a new PC myself with XP on it and used the knowlege gained from setting up the earlier systems to avoid the pitfalls. There were a lot of complaints about XP until MS released SP1. In many ways, Vista was no different apart from being a much more complex operating system that put high demands on computer hardware. I purchased a laptop with Vista installed not long after the system was released and set it up very carefully, disabling everything I decided I was unlikely to use and I have had minimal problems with it. And I imagine Windows 7 will also have a number of pitfalls until SP1 is released sometime into the future.